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To: dan1123

Am I to understand that you feel that science isn’t welcome on threads that discuss science?


298 posted on 03/31/2008 4:58:56 PM PDT by tokenatheist
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To: tokenatheist
Am I to understand that you feel that science isn’t welcome on threads that discuss science?

No, I'm saying that you have strayed into philosophy without wanting to make a philosophical argument. You practically pretend that science has no underlying philosophy--or if one exists, then it is completely problem-free. Crevo threads are the most common place where philosophically stunted scientists and science fans run into the minefield around the edges of the philosophy of science.

In short, you hold a definitional view that science (and possibly all truth) is naturalism and therefore evolution is true because any theological argument to counter it is false by definition. If you're arguing based on definitions, you're arguing philosophy--not science.

302 posted on 03/31/2008 5:55:50 PM PDT by dan1123 (If you want to find a person's true religion, ask them what makes them a "good person".)
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