" This means that seven decades of leftist anti-religious secularism is FAILING!"
COME ON!! Science is not a religion and it is not a god it is not even a leftist thing. Science is, at its core, a method. It is a four step process, nothing more, nothing less.
I’m sure most people covered this in High School, but apparently many were not listening, so for their benefit, here is science in a nutshell.
1. Observe something. Make notes about what you see.
2. Formulate a hypothesis. In other words, make up an assumption to explain what you see.
3. Use your hypothesis to predict something else.
4. Run tests to see if your hypothesis holds true and have others repeat them
That’s it. It is not good, not bad, and really very simple. In fact, we do this in our head everyday.
1. I see a lot of traffic and there are people running across the street.
2. I hypothesize that running across the street is safe.
3. I predict that if they can run across the street and not get hit, I can too.
4. I run across the street and do not get hit
But my hypothesis has not withstood the test of peer review. Something working once does not mean it will work in every case. So I ask my friend, also a “scientist”, to run across the street. He protests, something about too much traffic. I insist that my hypothesis has been tested and urge him to just do it.
He runs across and gets creamed by a passing truck. My hypothesis was proven false.
Now there are two key points here.
1. A hypothesis can work once but fail when tried again later. In fact, it might pass the test a million times, but if it fails even once, it is proven false. Therefore, the goal of the scientific method is not to prove your hypothesis true which is impossible, it is to prove it false.
2. No matter how many times you test something; there is always the possibility that it will be proven false later. In science, nothing is true; everything is a hypothesis, a theory or a law.
There are levels of acceptance in science each one stronger then the last.
* A hypothesis is basically an educated guess.
* A theory is a hypothesis that has been tested many, many times by many, many people using the scientific method without a single case of its being proven false occurring.
* A law is a theory that has been tested so damn many times that hardly anyone even bothers any more.
Since each level of acceptance has received more and more scrutiny, the “scientific community” becomes increasingly more hesitant to accept claims that somebody has proven something false as it moves from hypothesis to theory to law.
If you say “I have proven that hypothesis false” you will hardly get a shrug.
If you say “I have proven that theory false” you better be ready and able to prove it again and again and show others exactly how you did it so they can do it too, because people will be very hesitant to accept it.
If you say, “I have proven that law false”, hold on to your hats and glasses, because hell is about to break loose in the scientific community. It does not happen often, but it does happen, and when you can prove it, it is accepted.
That is the fundamental difference between science and Christianity and why there is no such thing as “Christian Science”.
To a scientist, everything is conditional, nothing is absolutely true and everything is open for questioning.
To a Christian, there is One truth and it is not open to doubt.
To an evolutionist there is one truth and it is not open to doubt. The most closed minded people in the world are evolutionists who refuse to allow competing theories to even be discussed in the classroom.
Hence, both Darwinism and creationism are theories.
I simply prefer to believe the later, based on what I've learned from other scientists (including Gallileo, Keppler, and others) and Whom I know who was there.