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"the jury is still out" on evolution
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=151471&source=r_scienceIn reality there are people who believe that all theories are mere guesses, even though that moon rock apparently helped contradict a theory that had not yet been repudiated by the church.
Similarly, President Bush says "the jury is still out" on evolution.
Agreeing with him are people in Kansas and Georgia and other places where the word "theory" means something far different than the theory spoken of in science.
In common usage, theory is an unsubstantiated guess.
I got an e-mail the other day from a reader telling me that the lights he saw as a child in the night sky over Hemet were alien star ships. Mysterious lights must be aliens. That's what we mean by theory. [continued]
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