Re: Ben Stein's Movie EXPELLED - Could we have been "designed"

"Donald E. Flood" wrote:
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> "Bill Bonde ( 'the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack' )"
> <tributyltinpaint@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Richard Anacker wrote:
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> >> Sers Tokay et all
> >>
> >> Tokay Pino Gris schrieb:
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> >> > String theory is maths. Math works differently.
> >>
> >> But even this requires observation. Otherwise it's brain-wanking.
> >>
> > I think that maths has value even if it isn't connected to the real
> > world in any way. Often before some use for it is found, it is
> > studied by various free spirits.
> >
> >
> >
> >> ST didn't start out of the blue. There are observations, maths tries
to
> >> stick puzzles together and - what is a very im****tant thing - tries
to
> >> predict observations.
> >>
> > String theory is tricky because you can adjust the string theory to
> > match any observation. This is a problem because it sounds a lot
> > like "God did it".
> >
> >
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> This statement is BULL****!  Clearly, you know NOTHING about String
Theory,
> and NO string theorist or any other physicist would agree with this
> statement.  Little "wiggle room" exists in QED and GR, and I would
venture
> to say, even less exists within the string theory framework.
>
What do you think you know about string theory?



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