Faith writes:
Of course if there are areas of reality that aren't subject to scientific testing because they have nothing to do with the physical world but another realm of reality altogether, and you've arbitrarily rejected them for simply being a different kind of reality, that's pretty irrational of you isn't it?
There are no areas of reality that are beyond scientific testing. This is science's job. If you can show me a reality that is not being examined by science, I'll test it myself for you.
I inhabit an entirely different paradigm,
Yes we know
so that whatever is true in them is always being subsumed under a Big Fat Lie that skews it all beyond any real scientific usefulness. The science in them would stand without the lie, but that would require some intricate epistemological surgery.
It's not a single lie though is it Faith? If it was a single issue, it's vaguely possible that it could be wrong and if it was wrong it would be corrected - because all errors in science ultimately get corrected.
It's actually multitudes of 'lies' in all independant scientific disciplines that all rather miraculously converge on a single 'truth'. So physics, astronomy geology and biology all provide supporting evidence for an old earth and none for a young earth. Are all the millions of scientists involved in a massive conspiracy to corrupt and lie about everything from Rocks to space travel? It's pure fantasy Faith, it's utterly impossible for you to be right and literally millions of man-years of cross-disciplinary, peer-reviewed science to be totally wrong in every aspect of its work. If it was wrong great chunks of our technology would not work. Even you at your deepest level of denial and delusion must know this.
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Life, don't talk to me about life - Marvin the Paranoid Android
"Science adjusts it's views based on what's observed.
Faith is the denial of observation so that Belief can be preserved."
- Tim Minchin, in his beat poem, Storm.