From: "Paul Ranson" 

Newton's theory of gravity is still good enough to navigate the solar
system. It's clearly a pretty good model of reality.

Paul

"Steve Ewing"  wrote in message
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> On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 14:58:21 -0500, Gary Britt 
> wrote:
>
>>  For 300 years all the
>> John Becketts and Steve Ewings of the world had *faith* in the
>> correctness of the theory of gravity, however.  What guesses do you hold
>> dear today that will be replaced by new guesses 300 years from now?
>
> And all that time the theory was being tested, and when increasing
> observational accuracy produced results that didn't jibe with the theory,
> out it went.
>
> To date, the theory of evolution is passing its tests; its predictions are
> holding up.  ID, on the other hand, has failed coming out of the box.
>
> --
> Steve 
> http://www.qmss.com/~sewing

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