[WikiEN-l] Wikipedia:Fringe noticeboards/Theory

[Kurt Maxwell Weber]

On Friday 06 July 2007 16:44, geni wrote:
> On 7/6/07, Charlotte Webb <charlottethewebb at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Theories, even mainstream ones, shouldn't exactly be presented
> > ("in-universe") as fact.
>
> The earth is a reasonably well-approximated oblate spheroid.
>
> Given that 0+1=1 and 1+1=2 2+2=4
>
> Speciation happens
>
> It is possible to analytically solve the Schrödinger equation for Hydrogen
> atom
>
> These are facts. Presenting them as anything else would be misleading.
>

The last three are, because they can be derived through pure reason.

But the first isn't.  It's simply the current scientific consensus, based on 
the available evidence--but it could still be wrong.

-- 
Kurt Weber
<kmw at armory.com>