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Old 19-October-2005, 08:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Lonewulf
Gillian, you're right. What I SHOULD have said is that it was a fact that Kennedy was shot. There have to be facts, though, in science - the sun rises and sets, that's a fact. Computers turn on when you push the little button, that's a fact. And if it doesn't turn on, there's a problem.

See what I mean? What exactly do you mean by no facts in science?
Well, for one thing, the sun doesn't rise and set every day; the Earth revolves around the sun so that the sun appears to rise and set.

In science, there are data. However, nothing is proven, so nothing is considered truly "fact" as most people think of it. It is entirely possible that things will show all our theories wrong. The more data we collect, and the more we refine those theories using that data, the less likely it is that we are wrong, but nothing is truly proven.

(Oh, and yes, the gun Oswald used was connected ballistically to the Tippit shooting. See http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/home.htm for more information than you really want about the evidence against Oswald.)
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