[EricH]

Originally Posted by JosephM

NOW, I DO believe in string theory, and I love it, but I think we need to take a step back and look at what really classifies as science (gravity & evolution) and a theory and what isn't. (i.e. creationism & intelligent design).

In my texbooks, science is defined as what is observable, measurable, recordable, and repeatable. Gravity falls uder this, but evolution, creationism, and intelligent design do not. For those last three, we only observe the effects of whichever one is true. (Have you observed any evolution recently? If so, tell the world. Of course, I haven't actually observed either of the others. Actually, microevolution-change within a species-has been proven. It's called selective breeding. And please don't flame me, but macroevolution-changing from one species to another-is unproven and unlikely.) So far as I know, string theory is not recorded, measured, or observed, so according to the definition of science I am using here, it is not science. It may be science according to another definition, but I don't know what that definition is.