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Richard[_9_]

On 7/19/2012 1:26 PM, zzzzzzzzzz wrote:

Larry, theories are just exactly that. Theories.

"Theory" doesn't mean what you think it does.

Real scientist do not attempt to PROVE any theory.
They try to DIS-prove it.

No, they try to disprove a "hypothesis". When they can't (for some time and
effort spent) it may become a "theory".

Because all the positive proofs in the world fall to one simple
disproof. That's how science works.

Sure, but a disproof is often an expansion of the hypothesis. Newton wasn't
wrong but Einstein expanded his theory.

That's the problem with the "science" being offered in this case.
Theory is being offered as proof.

Worse; simulation is being offered as reality.

The only branch of science that does that is political science.

Anything with "science" in its name, isn't.

Yeah, I didn't do that quite right.
But I hope the jist of it remains.

And you are smack on about simulations being offered as anything by
simulation.