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To: GoLightly

Like I said, science seeks to understand but cannot explain our surroundings.


68 posted on 08/07/2005 8:35:30 AM PDT by Pipeline (The lessons can be harsh. All are repeated until learned.)
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To: Pipeline

Volcanoes can be explained. Lightning can be explained. Just two examples off the top of my head.


69 posted on 08/07/2005 8:45:52 AM PDT by bobdsmith
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To: Pipeline
Like I said, science seeks to understand but cannot explain our surroundings.

If you had stopped there in your previous post, I would not have responded to you. Science does more than seek understanding. It also tries to make claims & most of the time, those are in the form of an explanation about something. The world is warming. Man is causing it...

From the portion of the article you pulled out to respond to: But ID also demands belief in the untestable.

Science also demands belief in the untestable. Yes, I realize science is attempting to test the untestable all of the time. The only way science can do it is by allowing for faith in itself, including its many unprovables.

For example, strong force is currently untestable. It may always be untestable. It is an unknown force allowed by science. One unknown force is allowed in, while there is a demand for another unknown force to be excluded. Why?

78 posted on 08/07/2005 10:49:37 AM PDT by GoLightly
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