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10-06-2007, 05:41 PM
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Yes really. Too long has it had rampant incorrect usage as the word "evidence". I only mention it because so often do I hear demands to prove something, frequently scientific, but also other claims, when such a request is impossible to meet.

You can prove something is wrong, however. Anything that cannot be proved wrong by its own definition or catch 22, ie God or most conspiracy theories, is not scientific.

You can support stances with evidence (ie evolution, Big Bang etc) but proof can only describe the relationship of cosine and tangent.
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