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Author Topic:   What if? (religious reaction to extraterrestrial life)
NosyNed
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Message 18 of 65 (97418)
04-03-2004 2:18 AM
Reply to: Message 17 by Milagros
04-03-2004 1:59 AM


but rather the idea that a "new" theory is required instead. Which is why I was insinuating that it "wouldn't" disprove evolution.
I think it would disprove the current theory of evolution. It would not disprove that evolution has happened but it would show that our explanationf or it is futzed badly.
You seem to think that we should then jump to "god-did-it". Disproving evolution does not prove God in anyway. It isn't possible to prove or disprove God.
When we found that Newton was wrong that didn't prove anything about God did it? Nope, we just needed another explanation.
If you want to prove God you don't do it by disproving anything else. You need your own theory with testable predictions.
If you want the idea of a Crator considered you'll have to say what you'd expect to see. So far it's always been "just what the current scientific theory says". Since invoking deities has proven to be a bad explanation for things so many times before would be legitimately to try it too quickly again.
It didn't work for the sun, lightening, volcanoes, disease, mental illnes or the nature of living things on earth. Why be too quick to try it again?

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