But it is also an illustration of what happens when a maverick scientific theory threatens conventional wisdom.
He says he is trying to describe an actual scientific theory, one that will resolve many of the conflicts of science.
Any economic theory faces the same tests as any other scientific theory.
What they do is raise questions about the scientific theory of evolution.
"If scientists had used scientific theory to guide them, the pyridylamine catalysts would likely never have been discovered, " says Vincent Murphy, an organometallic chemist at Symyx.
Teachers could discuss how creationism differed from scientific theory if a student brought up the subject, but any further discussion should occur in religious education lessons, she said.
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Parents in the U.S. followed the same course, without once being told by the lawyers that it was, in fact, a legal gambit and not a valid scientific theory.
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Under the Scientific Method, when a scientist proposes a scientific theory, she or he vigorously attempts to prove the theory wrong and then encourages others to do the same.
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Retired Prof Higgs returned to his working roots at Edinburgh University on Wednesday to give a briefing in the same street where he formulated his scientific theory 44 years ago.
After boycotting a series of hearings in Topeka last May, in which supporters of intelligent design criticized evolution, science groups are now mobilizing to defend what biologists say is a bedrock scientific theory.
Dr Hilary Leevers, of the Campaign for Science and Engineering, said science teachers would be teaching evolution not creationism and so should not need a book to tell them how to "delicately handle controversy between a scientific theory and a belief".
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All Farrell did was twist and distort any discussion whatsoever from a scientific context and perverted it to be about religion, which is a total misrepresentation of ID Theory and its scientific predictions.
And nearly a third of respondents said they had concerns about a purported link between vaccines and autism despite scientific evidence debunking this theory.
He wrote two scientific papers on his theory and was eventually published in the Physical Review Letters journal, sparking a 40-year hunt for the Higgs boson.
Dr Gosling's method has helped to launch a new scientific discipline, comparative personality theory.
He had started out intent on giving scientific heft to the prevailing Freudian theory that depression was caused by unconscious rage.
But Prof Reiss argues that there is an educational value in comparing creationist ideas with scientific theories like Darwin's theory of evolution because they demonstrate how science, unlike religious beliefs, can be tested.
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Sounds good, as an auditory learner might say--except that there's little scientific evidence to support learning style, in theory or in practice.
Newtonian physics is a simplification of our visible world that worked until advanced scientific techniques allowed scientists to conceive of quantum theory as an explanation of how our universe works.
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In addition, the theory of homeopathy actually defies conventional scientific understanding--in particular, the law of mass action, which demands that the rates of chemical reactions be proportional to the concentrations of substances involved.
Both the theory of evolution and creationism have valid scientific strengths and weaknesses.
For a time he wrote a mathematics column in Scientific American from which you could learn things like the theory of the Rubik's Cube.
But there is evidence that the theory underlying O'Dell's therapy has some scientific validity.
The idea has been debated in the scientific literature, but presentations at the American Physical Society meeting put the theory on firmer footing.
It races through ideas: how learned societies emerged, how the theory of evolution affected the way people viewed themselves, how scientific progress brought power to its protagonists.
So if Congress can't change their obstructionist ways, they can embrace them - House of Representatives Majority Leader Eric Cantor could do a guest spot on the Big Bang Theory, playing a lawmaker trying to shut down funding for scientific research, while his Democratic counterpart, Nancy Pelosi, could say why her party's caucus is secretly trying to destroy the world, for one of David Letterman's top 10 lists.
When a scientific experiment fails, we know we have to come up with a different theory.
This idea is at the heart of his theory of special relativity, on which much of our modern technology and scientific understanding is based.
In a scathing report, he concluded that investigators in the Willingham case had no scientific basis for claiming that the fire was arson, ignored evidence that contradicted their theory, had no comprehension of flashover and fire dynamics, relied on discredited folklore, and failed to eliminate potential accidental or alternative causes of the fire.
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