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Author Topic:   Is truth or evidence more important in science and evolution?
Sigmund
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Message 55 of 55 (663350)
05-23-2012 1:23 PM
Reply to: Message 44 by ScottyDouglas
05-17-2012 6:29 PM


Re: where's the evidence?
Well, I had to register and contribute for the first time just address a couple of your posts. Congratulations!
Message 44 you havent
How do you know what anyone else has experienced?
Answer - evidence. Hints[sic] no faith and therefore not capable of understanding truth and furthermore God.
This is completely wrong. The fact that evidence is of primary importance in science (evolution is part of science), has no bearing on the capability of understanding God. People do not have faith in God because of objective evidence, they simply have faith in God. No evidence is necessary. In fact, requiring evidence is the antithesis of faith.
Message 45 Going beyond our physical reality to make calculations and predictions is not truth.
Which is why when science does attempt to go beyond our physical reality, (for instance, to speculate on conditions prior to the Big Bang), it not presented as "truth" but merely an hypothesis.
Science only can determine physical means and anything outside that is beyond what science can offer.
You're exactly right here. Science can only deal with what can be physically measured and tested and experimented on. Hence, science does not, and can never, take a position for or against God. Of course some do claim that the findings of science rule God unnecessary but that is THEIR opinion, not science's.
If something is beyond science then how can science achieve it?
It can't and that is a self-imposed limitation of science. As mentioned above, science can only rule out possibilities, and God as supernatural causative agent can never be ruled out by science. However, certain interpretations of HOW God did things can be eliminated (such as a literal 6,000 yo universe or a global flood event 4,360 years ago) can be eliminated due to lack of any evidence whatsoever.
They can not they would need other sources and experts.
Except that science doesn't concern itself with things outside its reach. Certain scientists might attempt to do that but science as a methodology does not.
Edited by Sigmund, : Wrong date for flood

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