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Author Topic:   Creationists: Why is Evolution Bad Science?
kuresu
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Message 205 of 283 (308658)
05-02-2006 11:19 PM
Reply to: Message 204 by 2ice_baked_taters
04-24-2006 8:43 AM


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Sorry. I just have to take the bait.
Okay, to paraphrase what you say (and correct me if i'm wrong in my understanding of you), you will not accept any "theory" until many questions are answered, and yuo do not trust anything human because of our fallible nature. You have a beef with putting science above human thought.
I agree to a point. Man is an emotional beast, often provoked into passionate dispositions and has cloudy judgement most of the time due to subjectivity and irrationality.
Science is the objective and rational. It starts with a question--how? why?. It removes itself from the human framework and works in a dispassionate, rational, logical, objective pattern. Look at the scientific method. Nothing irrational or subjective about it. In fact, I've heard it described as the ultimate weapon of logic.
Theory has two definitions. One is the way we use it in every day communication. "It is my theory that Joe is going to cut his grass today". Nothing more than a guess.
In science, it is a model used to make predictions, and is based off of observed facts. let's just take gravity. In this theory, objects that are more dense will attract less dense objects. A prediction would be that something with a density of 1 is drawn to something with a density of 3. We see this happen in our solar system. The sun is the most dense thing in the system. ANd guess what--the earth is pulled towards the sun. If it wasn't, then Newton's laws of motion say that we should hurtle off into space.
When someone brought up the creationists and said that they at least have a reason, he is right. The creationists actually have a valid reason--they feel threatened by science and want to protect their way of life. They tend to be somewhat rational about it. You, on the other hand, have done nothing but show yourself to be the black sheep. You refuse to accept or believe just to refuse. You aren't rational, or even non-rational. You would probably reject that the sky is blue just because everyone agrees that it is blue, and oh no, we can't follow the crowd.

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