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:Science does not deal in certainty, so "fact" can only mean a proposition affirmed to such high degree of certainty that it would be perverse to withhold one's provisional assent.  {{unsigned|Igor nz}}

:Science does not deal in certainty, so "fact" can only mean a proposition affirmed to such high degree of certainty that it would be perverse to withhold one's provisional assent.  {{unsigned|Igor nz}}

:: Common descent is a ''hypothesis'', not a fact.  There is no "overwhelming evidence", and I personally know biologists who do ''not'' agree with it, so that claim is also wrong.  Gravity is ''observed'' every day, and is ''testable'' at any time.  99.999% of common descent is supposed to have happened before there was anyone around to observe it, and is not directly testable.  So that analogy is quite inappropriate.  And since when does an encyclopedia that in many cases reports ''both'' the evolutionary view and the YEC view become a "YEC wiki"?  It seems that evolutionists are so bigoted that the only "neutral" view is the evolutionary view and any view that is actually neutral (i.e. gives both evolutionary and creationary viewpoints) is biased!  That's nothing short of twisting the meaning of words, and this encyclopedia, unlike the biased and bigoted Wikipedia, won't stand for that.  Your comment about being a resource for home-schooled students ''presumes'' your viewpoint to be correct, but if your viewpoint is ''not'' correct, that statement is nonsense.  [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 07:53, 28 March 2008 (EDT)

:: Common descent is a ''hypothesis'', not a fact.  There is no "overwhelming evidence", and I personally know biologists who do ''not'' agree with it, so that claim is also wrong.  Gravity is ''observed'' every day, and is ''testable'' at any time.  99.999% of common descent is supposed to have happened before there was anyone around to observe it, and is not directly testable.  So that analogy is quite inappropriate.  And since when does an encyclopedia that in many cases reports ''both'' the evolutionary view and the YEC view become a "YEC wiki"?  It seems that evolutionists are so bigoted that the only "neutral" view is the evolutionary view and any view that is actually neutral (i.e. gives both evolutionary and creationary viewpoints) is biased!  That's nothing short of twisting the meaning of words, and this encyclopedia, unlike the biased and bigoted Wikipedia, won't stand for that.  Your comment about being a resource for home-schooled students ''presumes'' your viewpoint to be correct, but if your viewpoint is ''not'' correct, that statement is nonsense.  [[User:Philip J. Rayment|Philip J. Rayment]] 07:53, 28 March 2008 (EDT)