Paul writes:
BTW: Percy..You may say that science proves nothing...But I believe it is the only mechanism by which anything natural can be proven and it has proven much. Thank God.
Believing that science proves things, which is the same thing as not understanding the principle of tentativity, is a common misperception among laymen. But now that science has been properly described for you, why would you want to persist in adhering to this misperception?
Science does not prove anything. All it does is build theoretical frameworks around bodies of evidence that both explain and make sense of the evidence, and predict in which areas and directions future evidence may lie.
A good example of this is a prediction related to Einstein's general theory of relativity. Einstein's theory explained many phenomena, one of the requirements of theory, but it also predicted that light would be affected by gravity just like everything else. In 1919 Sir Arthur Eddington went to Africa and measured the angle of deviation of starlight passing near the sun during a solar eclipse. The deviation was roughly the amount predicted by Einstein, and the theory was confirmed.
But is Einstein's theory proven? No, it is only supported by the evidence, not proven by it. Tentativity requires that theory always be open to change due to new evidence or improved understanding.
Until you incorporate the principle of tentativity into your understanding of science, you will continue to make conceptual missteps, such as believing that evolutionists are "faithful and willing disciples to this theory," or making arguments from personal incredulity like, "To say that all that we are today is a result of a vast series of unpredicted, unobservable, impersonal, purposeless, unaccountable, incalculable events, is totally unacceptable to me."
If you want to believe evolution is weakly supported by the evidence that is your perogative, but until you offer a theory which better explains the evidence you're just blowing hot air and in essence saying, "I don't accept this theory, but I can't explain why in terms of evidence."
Of course, we here know why you don't accept evolution. It's because it violates your misconceptions about the way the world should work, and because of your mistaken belief that Genesis not only has some literal interpretation, but that you know what that interpretation is.
--Percy