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That order also speaks more about the kinds of things being studied and how we should consider knowledge about those subjects.

When a discipline involves predicting the behavior of people, for example, it is not as often as dependable as when a discipline predicts the behavior of their atoms, eh?

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Also, this thread's whole subject seems to be an exercise in defeatism by the fact that all things and their processes, even the "mindless" ones, were at the essence of it all, created. If I understand that, the clues to the Creator are everywhere. If I don't understand that, how can I find bases for deciding such things?

If I outlaw God, then even if I create a model of Devil's Tower with my mashed potatoes, that process was just another act of nature. Nothing more.