hey pythagoreanists, do you realize the pythagorean theorem is just a theory?

Question

you all put so much faith in one theory. why don't you put your faith in the theory of intelligent design?

why do so many miss the humor in my questions?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

If there is info that the 1st theory is incorrect and the 2nd is authentic, then beneficial! i assume which you're drawing a correlation between this and coaching creation alongside with, or as a replace of, evolutionary theory, yet there is not any correlation right here. the main distinction is that the Pythagorean theorem is testable. you are able to reproduce the calculations, verify them, and prepare them to be maximum staggering. Likewise, you are able to try different equations and discover in the event that they provide a maximum staggering or an incorrect answer. Evolution, whether, won't be able to be examined, spoke of, reproduced, or shown. there is a few info that seems to point it has fee, whether, this is no longer shown, and there is likewise info that evolution is fake. there is likewise info that creation is a greater desirable rationalization for a manner existence in the international began and why the variety exists. when you consider that there is info in desire of creation, why be afraid to cutting-edge that info to scholars?

Answer 3

Its not a theory. A theorem is a statement, often stated in natural language, that can be proved on the basis of explicitly stated or previously agreed assumptions.

Answer 4

And here's a proof that it's just a theory:
y = em (which is obviously true)
Multiply both sides by "theor" and you get
theory = theorem.

Therefore, a theorem is a theory.

EDIT:
What I find funny about this is that the Pythagorean Theorem actually doesn't apply to Non-Euclidean spaces. (Lobaschevskian spaces, for example)

Answer 5

Have you heard the joke about the Pythagorean Theorem? Turns out to be a long, geeky pun...=0)


Triangles are of the devil...

Answer 6

Sorry, but I don't believe that every triangle in the world knows how to conform to the 'theory' every single time. Only god is that perfect.

Answer 7

Intelligent Design is not a theory. Please see falsifiability and the Tennessee court decision that found ID was just Creationism dressed as science.

Answer 8

You're confusing "theory" with "guesses". A guess is a prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

In scientific usage, a theory does not mean an unsubstantiated guess or hunch, as it can in everyday speech. A theory is a logically self-consistent model or framework for describing the behavior of a related set of natural or social phenomena. It originates from or is supported by experimental evidence (see scientific method). In this sense, a theory is a systematic and formalized expression of all previous observations, and is predictive, logical, and testable. As such, scientific theories are essentially the equivalent of what everyday speech refers to as facts. In principle, scientific theories are always tentative, and subject to corrections or inclusion in a yet wider theory. Commonly, a large number of more specific hypotheses may be logically bound together by just one or two theories. As a general rule for use of the term, theories tend to deal with much broader sets of universals than do hypotheses, which ordinarily deal with much more specific sets of phenomena or specific applications of a theory.

The term theoretical is sometimes used to describe a result which is predicted by theory but has not yet been adequately tested by observation or experiment. It is not uncommon for a theory to produce predictions which are later confirmed or proven incorrect by experiment.

The word theory has a number of distinct meanings in different fields of knowledge, depending on their methodologies and the context of discussion.

In science, a theory is a mathematical or logical explanation, or a testable model of the manner of interaction of a set of natural phenomena, capable of predicting future occurrences or observations of the same kind, and capable of being tested through experiment or otherwise falsified through empirical observation. It follows from this that for scientists "theory" and "fact" do not necessarily stand in opposition. For example, it is a fact that an apple dropped on earth has been observed to fall towards the center of the planet, and the theories commonly used to describe and explain this behaviour are Newton's theory of universal gravitation (see also gravitation), and general relativity.

In common usage, the word theory is often used to signify a conjecture, an opinion, or a speculation. In this usage, a theory is not necessarily based on facts; in other words, it is not required to be consistent with true descriptions of reality. This usage of theory leads to the common statement "It's not a fact, it's only a theory." True descriptions of reality are more reflectively understood as statements which would be true independently of what people think about them. In this usage, the word is synonymous with hypothesis.

Criterion for scientific status. Karl Popper described the characteristics of a scientific theory as follows:

It is easy to obtain confirmations, or verifications, for nearly every theory — if we look for confirmations.

Confirmations should count only if they are the result of risky predictions; that is to say, if, unenlightened by the theory in question, we should have expected an event which was incompatible with the theory — an event which would have refuted the theory.

Every "good" scientific theory is a prohibition: it forbids certain things to happen. The more a theory forbids, the better it is.

A theory which is not refutable by any conceivable event is non-scientific. Irrefutability is not a virtue of a theory (as people often think) but a vice.

Every genuine test of a theory is an attempt to falsify it, or to refute it. Testability is falsifiability; but there are degrees of testability: some theories are more testable, more exposed to refutation, than others; they take, as it were, greater risks.
Confirming evidence should not count except when it is the result of a genuine test of the theory; and this means that it can be presented as a serious but unsuccessful attempt to falsify the theory. (I now speak in such cases of "corroborating evidence.")

Some genuinely testable theories, when found to be false, are still upheld by their admirers — for example by introducing ad hoc some auxiliary assumption, or by reinterpreting the theory ad hoc in such a way that it escapes refutation. Such a procedure is always possible, but it rescues the theory from refutation only at the price of destroying, or at least lowering, its scientific status. (I later describe such a rescuing operation as a "conventionalist twist" or a "conventionalist stratagem").

One can sum up all this by saying that according to Popper, the criterion of the scientific status of a theory is its falsifiability, or refutability, or testability.

Answer 9

<.< it is called modern math, technically their is no such thing as a parallel line, because you can't follow it for forever, but yet as we know it is a parallel line, that is because we are following the modern math assumptions, just like you assume the bible is true without proof we assume that the parallel line stays parallel forever, and it most likely does

Answer 10

Glad you cleared that up for me before I became a pythagoreanist...I know all of my friends and family are turning into pythagoreanists...I fear I can feel the change occuring in me and my blood boiling as we speak...NO!

Answer 11

Relativity is also a theory, think about that. lol