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To: Anti-MSM
why don't they allow competing theories about how the world became what it is today.

All competing theories are welcome except the ones that say "god did it" QED.

That is religion and not science.

936 posted on 12/20/2005 1:42:16 PM PST by staytrue (MOONBAT conservatives are those who would rather lose to a liberal than support a moderate)
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To: staytrue
All competing theories are welcome except the ones that say "god did it" QED.

That is religion and not science.

So even if it became clear that God created the Earth, the universe, and all its creatioins(which it already is, in my opinion), science would rather hide from the truth?

995 posted on 12/20/2005 2:02:13 PM PST by Anti-MSM (Conservatives wish 9-11 never happened-liberals pretend it didn't!)
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To: staytrue
All competing theories are welcome except the ones that say "god did it" QED. That is religion and not science.

Astonishing. At least this is honest. You are completely incapable of distinguising your science from your atheism.

First, as someone else has pointed out, the notion that the pursuit of knowledge requires putting certain classes or categories of explanation off the table a priori, i.e., based on presupposition, is profoundly unscientific, and is in fact itself religious.

Second, by whom, when, and where exactly was it decided what "science" is? Some appointed judge somewhere? Some little oligarchy? I could have sworn the issue was the matter of considerable philosophical discussion, but apparently it was settled somewhere, presumably by judicial fiat.

Third, the word science comes from the word scio, which is Latin for "I know", or knowledge. It's about the pursuit of truth and accurate knowledge. Atheism is the view that there is no God. Remove your presuppositions from your science and your science will get a lot better.

To try to proselytize for your philosophical naturalism under the trojan horse of arbitrarily defined science is mischievious, to say the least.

2,084 posted on 12/21/2005 11:40:21 PM PST by jbloedow
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