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Leaky Wrote:common misconception, evolution isn't a belief or opinion, it's a fact that's been proven with tonnes of supporting evidence.

It depends on what your definition of "fact" is. If by fact, you mean something which is definitively/undeniably true, then philosophically speaking, that's not correct.

did you just compare a scientific fact to a philisophical opinion? evolution is a scientific fact.

I asked you what you meant by fact, because technically the only thing that can be definitively proven as undeniable fact is "cogito ergo sum" (I think, therefore I exist). For all you know you could just be a brain in a vat (that is if you think that the mind is an emergent property of the brain). Also, science has its foundations in philosophy and logic.

Define "scientific fact".

you can't mix philosophy with science, philosophy is worthless ideas used to undeniably counter everyone elses arguments and it's stupid. philosophy is nearly as bad as blind faith.

Philosophy might not always be practical, but it does have a huge influence on our lives and the way we think, it's responsible for democracy, socialism, so called "basic human rights", many elements of modern day science, and many other things associated with modern societies.

And you didn't respond to my prompt. How do you define "scientific fact"?

Philosophy already is mixed with science, for example: fallibilism (the tenet that scientific theories cannot be proven, only disproven). If you ever looked at a legitimate scientific experimental report, you would know that the experimenters never use the word "proven". Rather, they write things like "the experiment supported the hypothesis that blah blah blah. This is because science cannot prove a theory beyond the shadow of a doubt.

Philosophy (assuming logic is involved) is not similar to blind faith, it is actually closer to the opposite, thoughtful and rational viewpoint. To dismiss logic, is to dismiss science, and is to make all opinions equally credible.