GoodScienceForYou wrote on Dec 22nd, 2009 at 8:51am:Who told you that science does not deal in absolute evidence? Why did you drop your guard over your intelligence and believe them?
Nobody, I read a large number of peer reviewed articles and noted that none referred to proof. The conclusion I drew was that proof was not a part of science. When I contemplated this I realised that the scientific method relies on falsification, not proof, and then it fit into place.
This notion is easy to disabuse me of. I gave you the chance. I asked for you to present any scientific paper, published in any journal, from the last 50 or so years, in which the authors referred to their conclusions as being absolutely proven.
In other words, I gave you an opporunity to provide me with the slightest sliver of evidence to back up your claim. You have not yet done so, and so by your own method of reasoning, I have dismissed it.
So, put up or shut up. Show me the evidence that science has ever dealt with proof.