Traderdrew writes:
I'm saying science does not directly pursue the truth. It attempts to explain through falsification and testable methods. It attempts to compare competing hypotheses and theories to each other.
If you have a better method for testing and validating explanations of natural phenomena to determine if they adequately reflect reality I am all ears.
Traditional scientific explanations automaticall resist or disqualify any inference to designers that cannot be found through empirical means.
No, not disqualify. Rather science remains mute on the subject of the supernatural, religious or otherwise. We cannot test capricious supernatural causes (phenomena that defy the natural laws of the universe) using the scientific method. Science can only test and validate natural phenomena not supernatural phenomena.
"You can't put God in a test tube", they say. I say, "You can't put Attila the Hun in one either."
Yes, but Attila the Hun cannot stop the motion of the Sun in the sky, speak whole universes' into existence, raise the dead and remove all traces of his existence from the annals and artifcats of history.
The probablity of the existence of Attila the Hun can be discovered through the scientific method and historical analysis. We can look at the literary and archaelogical evidence and determine the likelihood of Atilla the Hood existing. We can even determine the likelihood of the existence of Biblical figures such as Abraham, Moses, David and Jesus. However, how do you scientifically determine the likelihood that Jesus was the Son of God? Or the supernatural miracle of Jesus raising Lazereth from the dead? Or the parting of the Red Sea? Or God speaking into existence the creation of the universe?
Trader writes:
I think that science does reflect reality many times but not in all senarios that attempt to explain reality.
And you determine this how?
Why does ID have to break natural laws and be something totally inclusive of the supernatural?
Because intelligent design by its very definition invokes a supernatural creator. One cannot create the very laws of the universe if he is bound by them.
Obviously, when people design objects from intelligent processes, they didn't have to break natural laws or evoke the supernatural.
No, because the people who create these things are part of the natural universe itself. God is not.
If we allow all the miracles in the Bible to be accepted as naturally occuring phenomena than the known laws of physics fly out the window. 100 feet of water in a sea or ocean could part at a moments notice, dead fish and bread could multiply spontaneously, people could live inside the stomachs of marine mammals for days, foliage could burn without being consumed, animals could talk, celestial objects can stop and stand still at a moments notice, children can be born through immaculate conception, the dead rising from the grave, cats and dogs living together etc.
Might as well chuck all the scientific books, journals, etc out and go back to living in the dark ages.
Edited by DevilsAdvocate, : No reason given.
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