"Bronsing" wrote in message
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In article , "Jeff Utz"
writes:

How does one saying "this is not proven; it's just a theory" differ
from
a
scientific theory? Not all scientific theories are proven.

Correction. No scientific theory is proven, nor can it be.


So...maths is not science?

The only way that numbers come into play concerning existential propositions
is that the only reasonable presumption concerning the proposition, "X
exists" is the null, "There is no X."


Null : of, being, or relating to zero
www.m-w.com
(as in, "There are no ETs.")


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Testing the Null Hypothesis
by John Marcus, MD
email

http://www.setileague.org/editor/null.htm

SETI is perhaps the most highly interdisciplinary of sciences,
encompassing not only astronomy, biology, engineering and physics, but
also psychology, metaphysics, probability, and belief. But it is, first
and foremost, a science, one to which we hope to apply the scientific
method.

[...]

The Scientific Method for the Argus search is this:

There are no ET's. (null hypothesis).

.... [W]e now design an experiment (Project Argus, for example) to try to
prove that statement wrong, recognizing that it takes only one clear,
unambiguous counter-example to reject the null hypothesis. ...

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