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Old 18-07-2003, 01:51 AM
Jeff Utz
 
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Default Do Theories Have to be Testable to be Scientific?

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"Bob White" wrote in message
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What prevents us from using the logical, systematic, scientific method of
investigation to investigate any proposition at all, even a proposition
like, "It is true that a magic invisible creator of everything might

really
exist"?


How would you test this?

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