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To: bioqubit
Any time a scientist/researcher initially throws away a possibility, s/he has failed.

Ignoring the possibility that God created it does not preclude from figuring out how it works or got there, or whatever else the physical world can answer.

Frustrated, a researcher throws his hands up and decides God won’t give up that secret.

I don't believe that has happened very frequently, and I don't believe the good ones do that.

For all the previous 2000 years of science, most were devout believers in God. Yet they made fantastic progress.

24 posted on 01/23/2014 11:48:40 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: ShadowAce
For all the previous 2000 years of science

You can't really find anything resembling science all that much prior to 1500, and not much before 1600.

Science, if it means anything at all, refers to a method and a way of looking at the world. These were invented in Western Europe probably over the course of the 1600s.

While thinkers in the classical period and in India and China accomplished amazing things, they did it without the benefit of science, as such.

30 posted on 01/23/2014 3:01:52 PM PST by Sherman Logan
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To: ShadowAce

“I don’t believe that has happened very frequently, and I don’t believe the good ones do that.”

Newton, Copernicus, Galileo, could go on. They were pretty good.


78 posted on 01/25/2014 11:57:16 AM PST by Fuzz
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To: ShadowAce
For all the previous 2000 years of science, most were devout believers in God. Yet they made fantastic progress.

Including Einstein, whose belief in God actually helped guide him to find some of his theories.

323 posted on 02/12/2014 12:24:48 PM PST by PapaNew
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