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To: stands2reason
How do you use the scientific method in theology?

One who truly wants to know will find the answer by asking one who practices the skill. Wiser men than I can provide a full answer to the question, so I won't try. One scholarly article I've found on the subject is here:

Theology Can Use the Scientific Method and Still be Theology

But suffice to say, trained theologians are your best source of information for such a question.

164 posted on 07/05/2004 6:07:49 PM PDT by Recovering_Democrat (I'm so glad to no longer be associated with the Party of Dependence on Government!)
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To: Recovering_Democrat
One scholarly article I've found on the subject is here:
Theology Can Use the Scientific Method and Still be Theology

The abstract for that article has this statement: "An empirical method for theology assumes the existence of God and then asks what God’s nature is. It uses scientific techniques on proposed answers."

In the body of the article appears this howler: "Science does not verify or falsify theories by comparing them with a set of objective data found through observation."

Not much is to be gained by a deeper study of this guy's writings.

167 posted on 07/05/2004 6:19:54 PM PDT by PatrickHenry (Hic amor, haec patria est.)
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