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A question about the lifespan of scientific theories.
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RE: A question about the lifespan of scientific theories.
(January 11, 2015 at 8:12 pm)Hammod1612 Wrote: A quick question to all of the people holding the facts out there:
I'm personally an Atheist, and was recently in a discussion with my Christian friend about God, evolution and so forth.
A thing that bugged me a bit was one of her "facts," which i could not really comment upon since i didn't have the knowledge about it.
Her argument was, that religion had lasted for thousands of years, and apparently (according to her "facts"), scientific theories have an average "lifespan" of about 30 years. Now i know for a fact that it's because science constantly discovers new things to replace the old theories, which i told her, but is this actually a fact, that theories have an average lifespan of 30 years?
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If your friend is LDS, boy oh boy, could I pop her balloon.

BTW, Newton's theory of gravity (hundreds of years old) is still accurate enough to guide spacecraft to planets billions of miles away to an accuracy of just some tens of miles.
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RE: A question about the lifespan of scientific theories. - by vorlon13 - January 11, 2015 at 8:25 pm

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