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Deduction

Deduction

The logical derivation of a conclusion from certain premises. The conclusion will be true if the premises are true and the deductive argument is valid.

Compare: induction .


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Re: Bird-Dinosaur News

... is INHERITED from a common ancestor. They assume something took place in the past, by INTERPRETING observation in the present. MAY I ADD THAT THIS DEDUCTION IS ONLY OBTAINED BY THE RULING OUT OF SPONTANEOUS CREATION. Who set this kind of thinking in motion but Darwin. Therefore, if you think this ...

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by AFJ
Wed Jun 24, 2009 3:25 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bird-Dinosaur News
Replies: 44
Views: 1045

Natural selection is proven wrong

... incomplete-- he was not there in the past to see how it came to that state of being. Therefore the history of the object must be there to draw a deduction--but it is not because he was not there. He must interpret then it according to the teachings he has received--his beliefs about the evidence. ...

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by alextemplet
Sun May 03, 2009 7:59 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16289

Re: Natural selection is proven wrong

... incomplete-- he was not there in the past to see how it came to that state of being. Therefore the history of the object must be there to draw a deduction--but it is not because he was not there. He must interpret then it according to the teachings he has received--his beliefs about the evidence. ...

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by AFJ
Sun May 03, 2009 5:07 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Natural selection is proven wrong
Replies: 177
Views: 16289

Re:

... mutation. 4) If there is no outside source (ID) of the information, and no inward source of the information (DNA)-- unguided mutation is the only deduction left for the newly added information. The fact that evolution requires so many mutations-- and that they bring positive results, when the ...

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by AFJ
Sat Feb 28, 2009 7:10 am
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: Bible vs Darwin
Replies: 293
Views: 30209

Re: 5 best proofs of evolution

... catastrophe. You can provide oxidation evidence but it does not rule out every other possibility--which would be required to make a scientific deduction. It is not even scientific to say something is "proved" in the context of the scientific method. The next step after a theory is ...

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by AFJ
Mon Feb 23, 2009 9:21 pm
 
Forum: Evolution
Topic: 5 best proofs of evolution
Replies: 94
Views: 14074
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