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04-06-2019, 05:42 PM
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If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

On the tails of a worthy thread started by Bratti..,

I have a friend who is very well-educated and works in a scientific field. He told me once that if it can't be proven, then it isn't worth thinking about or debating - it's just all hogwash.

Do you tend to agree or disagree?

What, if anything can't be proven?

Are such things worth contemplating and discussing?

(Off to buy energy sources to put on the dinner table tonight ).
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04-06-2019, 05:45 PM
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Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

...and if you can't type a proper thread title, should you be allowed to post?"

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04-06-2019, 05:50 PM
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Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

Originally Posted by Surfermom ->
On the tails of a worthy thread started by Bratti..,

I have a friend who is very well-educated and works in a scientific field. He told me once that if it can't be proven, then it isn't worth thinking about or debating - it's just all hogwash.

Do you tend to agree or disagree?

What, if anything can't be proven?

Are such things worth contemplating and discussing?

(Off to buy energy sources to put on the dinner table tonight ).
First of all, proof is a slippery thing. Much, maybe most of science, is based on theories with measurable, testable evidence. If a theory works a hundred or a thousand times you would have reasonable grounds for accepting that theory.

If it fails just one you would have to modify or discard that theory.
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Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

Originally Posted by Surfermom ->
...and if you can't type a proper thread title, should you be allowed to post?"

Not if the title contains pony's or mosquito's
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04-06-2019, 05:54 PM
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Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

Originally Posted by Surfermom ->
On the tails of a worthy thread started by Bratti..,

I have a friend who is very well-educated and works in a scientific field. He told me once that if it can't be proven, then it isn't worth thinking about or debating - it's just all hogwash.

Do you tend to agree or disagree?


What, if anything can't be proven?

Are such things worth contemplating and discussing?

(Off to buy energy sources to put on the dinner table tonight ).


Disagree. Sorry Surfermom.

Why do some humans think they are so clever, that they know everything there is to know?

We never stop learning.
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04-06-2019, 06:00 PM
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Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

Originally Posted by Surfermom ->
On the tails of a worthy thread started by Bratti..,

I have a friend who is very well-educated and works in a scientific field. He told me once that if it can't be proven, then it isn't worth thinking about or debating - it's just all hogwash.

Do you tend to agree or disagree?

What, if anything can't be proven?

Are such things worth contemplating and discussing?

(Off to buy energy sources to put on the dinner table tonight ).
......... if it can't be proven at the present time!- qualifying statement.

That applies to so many theories over centuries. If they had just been discarded, we wouldn't have progressed.

All ideas should be discussed; proven or not, all ideas are valid points of discussion.

The minute we close our minds to alternative viewpoints, we are doomed!

Of course, scientific proof is the ultimate goal, but then even scientific proof is dependent on the level of knowledge at the time. Just ask Galileo!

And, if I understand it correctly, even our current level of understanding of quantum physics is based solely on theory, rather than on absolute proof.
(Feel free to shoot that down in flames, as I am no scientist, but am just going by what I have read and heard over the years).
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04-06-2019, 07:09 PM
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Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

Originally Posted by Mups ->
Disagree. Sorry Surfermom.

Why do some humans think they are so clever, that they know everything there is to know?

We never stop learning.


I have to agree with,Mups,..

Do you think,only on certain subjects?
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04-06-2019, 07:25 PM
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Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

Originally Posted by Mups ->
Why do some humans think they are so clever, that they know everything there is to know?
Never met anyone who made such a claim.
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04-06-2019, 07:32 PM
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Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

If it can't be proven, it can't be disproven.

Discuss.


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04-06-2019, 07:33 PM
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Re: If it Can't be Proven, is it worth contemplation and respect?

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Never met anyone who made such a claim.
Have you ever met anyone,who,believe they know it all on a certain subject,your answer to Mups,got me thinking,that is why I edited my post to her?
 
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