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→‎Common usage: Spelling/Grammar Check, typos fixed: At it's → At its
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Spelling, grammar, and general fixes
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Reverted edits by RealScience (talk) to last revision by JoeyJ
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eliminated unhelpful information
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→‎Common usage: deleted redundant point; ref does not give an example and is useless
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→‎Common scientific theories: all the other theories are also unfinished in the same sense
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→‎Common usage: text was saying that biologists use the term correctly and physicists do not; better to just describe common usage
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Undo revision 808204 by CPdefeated (Talk)
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Replaced content with 'CP is defeated by vandals!'
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December 11, 2009
Organized stuff into new section
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Formatting change. There was a random citation, which I've placed next to what it was actually referring to.
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Undo revision 729102 by JacobB (Talk) - I tried to be more favorable towards the Conservative opinion, and I added appropriate citations.
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→‎Common usage: Grammar thing...
mTheories must, by definition, be evidenced by empirical data. I don't know who edited in that this was not true.
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Undo revision 729100 by JPope (Talk)
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→‎Common usage: I was going to just correct a grammar mistake, but I added a paragraph about the confusion regarding 'theory' versus a nonscientific 'theory'.
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→‎Common usage: - Adding some information about the 'String Theory' quote, with more accurate information about the usage of the word 'theory' in 'String Theory'.
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Reverted edits by Tiguanlover (Talk); changed back to last version by CSGuy
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No, I'm afraid that a scientific theory has the same meaning throughout science, not just biology. A theory is a well supported explination of something that occurs in the natural world.
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tweak opening sentences - a couple of grammar corrections and (I hope) added clarity
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theory vs. law - I think I finally put my finger on it!
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found an excellent reference defining this term
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If *you* can't observe it, is it still "scientific"?
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not everyone believes this
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delete nonsense about gravity
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delete assertion frequently made by liberal activists - really belongs in philosophy of science
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deleted "tested" because next paragraph contradicts this!
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rearrange
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not necessarily an argument
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And creationists don't (RE Christ and the Cosmos, "Is evolution scientific?")
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