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We can define a fact as an observation backed up by such a preponderance of evidence that no useful purpose would be served by doubting it.

— Mordechai Ben-Ari Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005)

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Intelligent Design is simply a dead end; it does not deserve to be called a theory.

Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005)

Modern science explicitly and emphatically rejects teleology.

Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005)

Just because people doing science are embedded in a particular social and cultural milieu, it doesn’t follow that science is not universal.

Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005)

Unfortunately, the universe does not come with an instructor’s manual and technical support is as hard to get as it is for some software packages.

Just a Theory: Exploring the Nature of Science (2005)

Until creationists accept that their claims must be falsifiable and show how they could be falsified, creationism cannot be said to be a scientific theory.

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