What Constitutes a Fact?

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I fully appreciate MarketAndChurch's comments on this subject of fact and the emotional response to people when you say evolution is a theory, not a fact.

But lets consider this, would you tell a child at this time of year that father Christmas does not exist, if you did would that child not cry inconsolably?

For MarketAndChurch to accept the scientific theory of evolution is an emotional one, to accept this is to question the blind watchmaker and this would be an inconsolably position to comprehend.
MarketAndChurch consistently informs all that the children of Israel have done more than most to advance the sciences but forgets to include that these advances come only after the acceptance of the reality of evolution. For this "theory" which is the unifying force in modern biology and is responsible for mans advancements in DNA mapping, medicine, genetics, domestication of plants and animals, antibiotics, organ transplants, artificial selection, computer science, paleontology and the list goes on.
MarketAndChurch also talks about the use of mathematics to prove things but fails to acknowledge that the theory of evolution can be expressed in mathematical terms of population genetics, natural selection and has been rigorously tested and empirically corroborated.

The mind of a child is a fragile one, accepting of fairy stories, wizards and monsters but not developed enough to comprehend logic. These “child like” delusions in isolation being taken into adulthood would result in the need for psychological intervention, when it's done in a group we call it religion.

I would appreciate an explaination of ethics sourced from "a flowing stream", "sun and the moon and the tide"?

Taoism

To corrupt ones natural state is to not go with the flow of nature.

it is moral to be natural, it is immoral to corrupt ones natural state with corrupting man-centric education. I am not doing Taoism justice with this simplistic reduction but you get the point.

Bernie LaPlante: "You remember when I said how I was gonna explain about life, buddy? Well the thing about life is, it gets weird. People are always talking ya about truth. Everybody always knows what the truth is, like it was toilet paper or somethin', and they got a supply in the closet. But what you learn, as you get older, is there ain't no truth. All there is is BS, pardon my vulgarity here. Layers of it. One layer of BS on top of another. And what you do in life like when you get older is, you pick the layer of BS that you prefer and that's your BS, so to speak." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104412/

A limit, but somewhat useful rule of thump is what happens if we go from singular to plural?

Are all facts the same kind? Can there be different kinds of facts?
And so on. E.g. if we can use objective on some facts, are there then some subjective facts?

Even in a political sense, separate but equal is possible, no?

That there are nine million bicycles in Beijing.

Problem - what makes bicycles and Beijing facts? Are there different kind of facts involving them?

It's a joke.

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