Re: [asa] Definition of evolution

I'm comfortable with "supposed," myself, it is accurate, but it does
sound sort of wimpy.

On 10/30/09, Dave Wallace <wmdavid.wallace@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim Armstrong wrote:
>>
>> Stateside, this particular usage of "supposed" has a dismissive or
>> belittling nuance. It says essentially that an assertion you may make with
>> confidence is only a less unsubstantial supposition in my view.  JimA
>> [Friend of ASA]
>>
> Or as anti evolutionists would put it, 'Only a Theory'.  To which I reply
> that Ohm's law and Maxwell's equations etc are only a theories upon which a
> lot of the modern world of electronics is built.
>
> Dave W
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