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Did not mean to insinuate that at all. I would not be at all surprised, however, if some basic, accepted tenet was overturned and shown to be absolutely false.

I would.

"Absolutely false" suggests some radical misunderstanding...and I don;t think there's simply any room for that possibility given just how many fields so perfectly intertwine with the theory of evolution. It's crazy how many fields line up and how many things would have to be wrong...and I mean WAY wrong, for it to be overturned in some radical way.

Tweaks...sure. Like going from the idea that the earth was a sphere to measuring it with greater precision and learning it's actually bigger at the equator, etc...but we simply know far too much to find out it's not generally what we've known now for 150 years.

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Posted by DawgsLife

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Posted on 4/1/17 at 11:17 am to GeauxTigerTM

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"Absolutely false" suggests some radical misunderstanding...and I don;t think there's simply any room for that possibility given just how many fields so perfectly intertwine with the theory of evolution. It's crazy how many fields line up and how many things would have to be wrong...and I mean WAY wrong, for it to be overturned in some radical way.

Ok. last response in this thread...but....you are basing that based upon the opinion that we are so advanced scientifically, that there could be no BIG mistakes. I mean, we just have too much knowledge and basis that if there were big mistakes they could be found out. however, every generation of minds feels this way. Why? because we are far more advanced and know a whole lot more than they had 100 years ago. Or 50 years ago. But, there will be so much more information that comes out in the next 20-30 years that it will dwarf what we know today. Our perceptions of how the world acts will change dramatically. there is no way man knows 1/1000th of everything. When our knowledge changes our understanding changes. When our understanding changes everything we thought we knew changes.

It's going to happen because it always has happened.

As I said, I doubt (Hope) I don't even check back to this thread...my last post regardless.