--- Gordon Fitch <gcf at panix.com> wrote:
> In a Usenet "debate" a few years ago about global warming, I
> thought I'd do as I have often done with other issues: look
> up a few web pages with the science on them and blow my
> right-wing opponents out of the water. To my surprise I
> discovered that there was no science in the sense of conclusions
> derived from phenomena -- only simulations and hypotheses.
> But science is about conclusions derived from phenomena;
> simulations are about theories, and are of not more than
> entertainment (or pomo lit-crit) interest unless they match
> up to phenomena.
Why were/are you surprised that there is no hard evidence about the future?
dd
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