In their view, anyway?
Evolutionary biology and climate change come immediately to mind but there are others as well.
2007-12-19 02:09:56 · 16 answers · asked by Dastardly 6 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
to regerugged; gravity started out as a theory as well. Facts are collected. They either support or don't support the theory. Evolution and climate change are heavily supported by facts.
2007-12-19 02:18:21 · update #1
To Freedom; Carbon 14 is used for recent dating. It's not the only isotope used however. Longer half-life isotopes (such as potassium - argon) is used for dating on the geologic time scale.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating
2007-12-19 02:21:54 · update #2
To Brandon; You can read up on the Mars issue here; http://www.realclimate.org/index.php?p=192
2007-12-19 02:28:06 · update #3
I love listening to the answers from creationists and intelligent design advocates on here (if only it weren't so sad that people are so willingly ignorant - and others will listen to them rather than do the research themselves).
They really think that the jury is still out on evolution.
Creationists and ID'ers continue to rely on misinformation and lying about what evolution does and doesn't consist of in pathetic attempts to discrediting it.
Instead of attempting to publish papers in scientific journals, showing the research behind their 'creation' theory, making testable predictions, or allowing their claims to undergo rigorous peer review (like everyone else has to), they spend their time painting the scientific community as an 'ivory tower' that rejects anything that doesn't agree with it.
2007-12-19 02:27:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Well let me see your "Science". The earth is warming and carbon dioxide is increasing. That is your "science". So I walk my dog in the evening and the sun goes down then. Therefore if I don't walk my dog the sun will not set???
Volcanoes erupting spews thousands of tons of carbon dioxide into the air. After a major volcano what happens every time? The temperture drops in that region for up to a year. And during what period of the earth was greenhouse gases 100X more plentiful than they are now? Answer.The Ice Age.
One last question.........there is no build up of carbon dioxide on Mars so why is that planet warming too?
Well gotta go walk my dog or this day will last forever.
2007-12-19 02:23:22 · answer #2 · answered by Brandon A 5 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Evolution has at least as many arguments against it as it has for it. Here is the start of a list of those. It is not only the ultra conservatives that don't buy it.
http://www.straight-talk.net/evolution/arguments.shtml
http://www.bgco.org/p/5598/Default.aspx
http://www.users.bigpond.com/rdoolan/evoluwrong.html
Additionally, carbon dating has been proven to be good only for the past five or six thousand years. Prior to that, it can be and often is way off, and the scientists themselves will tell you that. My Chemistry professor in college was the first to admit it.
Edit: Yes, I do know about Uranium or 238 U dating and K-Ar dating. Its accuracy is questionable since there is nothing to calibrate with. And there are many more that have the same argument.
2007-12-19 02:17:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 5⤋
Junk science does not depend on element analysis, facts, figures, readings, and records. Both of the examples you gave use these to provide evidence for what they propose. Remember that the ultraCons don't care for historical facts, they care about keeping ignorance.
2007-12-19 02:14:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Is it any wonder we are getting our butts handed to us by the rest of the world? Cons have gutted education in favor of their dogma and then want to complain that people can't support themselves.
2007-12-19 02:57:00 · answer #5 · answered by Holy Cow! 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Only folks that haven't studied bilogy or genetics or natural history believe evolution is a theory and not a fact.
2007-12-19 02:25:48 · answer #6 · answered by alphabetsoup2 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
What is Junk Science? And who made up that term? I think Science has as much to do with Faith in Science as does any other religion have to do with Faith in God.
2007-12-19 02:23:30 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
Why yes it is.
*But I'd have to say it's not surprising. It is kinda like how everything that is even the slightest bit critical of GWB is "liberal media."
2007-12-19 02:12:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
It's also odd that the only true junk scientists are conservative.
2007-12-19 02:23:24 · answer #9 · answered by ideogenetic 7 · 4⤊ 1⤋
yes, it is no coincidence that all of the sciences are in opposition to the fairy tales some mistake for truth.
2007-12-19 02:13:01 · answer #10 · answered by Free Radical 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋