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"...I will stick with the truth of Christ, you can stick with man made fairy tales about dark matter that cant be seen or tested, etc..."

As I explained to another poster:

"My post was NOT to defend 'Dark Matter' specifically, but rather the SCIENTIFIC PROCESS that is investigating it."

How does your computer work, there? Can you "see" the electrons whizzing around to transmit your posts to Free Republic? No? Didn't think so. There are MANY things in this reality that cannot be seen by the naked eye, yet can be harnessed and understood by Man's intellect. The computer you are using is direct proof of that. You are probably sitting underneath a flourescent light that is emitting light due to the excitation of "unseen" atoms. Your kitchen no doubt has a 'fridge with a compressor turned by an electric motor spun by "invisible" magnetic fields. Your last bout with a cold was caused by a virus too small to be seen attacking your body's individual cells, which are also too small to be seen. Your health was restored by the work of antibodies too small to be seen.

When testing for something that cannot be seen with the naked eye or other instrument, you attack the problem by looking for the EFFECTS it would cause on things you CAN see and measure. This is actual science. Theories get updated, revised, and if necessary, REJECTED, based upon evidence collected. Those ideas which yeild productive results are retained. Those that cannot be supported by the evidence are cast aside. It is the FUNDAMENTAL MECHANISM for LEARNING NEW THINGS.

The Bible will not tell you how to build a motor, or a microscope, or a telescope, or create a vaccine, or where to drill for oil, or how Nuclear Fusion works. That is not a deficiency, as the Bible is not a science or engineering text. It is a deficiency to try to use it like one.

Hallelujah brother! If you really want to get them cranked up, let it be known that you think their great, great, great, .... , great grandpappy was an ape. I find it amazing that ignorance is expressed as a necessary tool in the defence of obviously weak faith. I suspect you also yearn for the days when being a conservative meant you agreed with the likes of Bill Buckley and Barry Goldwater with Everret Dirksen as the center of the Republican party with a Nelson Rockefeller on the far left. It increasingly seems to me that one must hang out with left wing pinko parasite redistributionists or girly men neo isolationist libertarians to find an intelligent view of the universe.