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To: vpintheak
People will never stop at trying to explain the unexplainable.

That's as may be, but science is about discovering how to explain the explainable.

Unless you believe in God that is, then it is easy to explain.

Saying "God did it" isn't an explanation. The question becomes: how did God do it?

15 posted on 10/30/2003 5:34:57 PM PST by Physicist
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To: Physicist
The question becomes: how did God do it?

Intelligence. Science is indeed about how did God do it. It has shown us quite well how many things were indeed done. There are numerous laws in the scientific fields which hold true day after day, year after year and which enable us to predict and learn how to do things. It is these laws, these predictable consequences of actions which should tell any unbiased person that the universe is not a place where randomness is the cause of all things.

57 posted on 10/30/2003 6:48:10 PM PST by gore3000 ("To say dogs, mice, and humans are all products of slime plus time is a mystery religion.")
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To: Physicist
"That's as may be, but science is about discovering how to explain the explainable."

The ideal scientist should have a passionate dispassion about the conculsions of his theories. It is what it is, nothing added or subtracted. As much attention, experimentation, and theory, press, and horn blowing, should be expended to prove life and species as having been spontaneous as has been exhausted on proving it's not.

Some suspect scientists, fair or not, of being members of a good ol boys club more interested in getting stroked by their peers, than rocking the boat by looking in unauthorized and unpopular directions, and certainly taking no risk of being toss'ed from membership in the club.

This leads, fair or not, to the perception that scientists, in limiting the scope and direction of their research out of haughtiness, has placed humankind in a postion of having been robbed of needed accurate information and their dollars being wasted on useless but popular pursutes that have been a circular route back to "we don't know", and, "there appears to have been a sudden spontaneous eruption of species".

233 posted on 10/31/2003 7:38:22 AM PST by MissAmericanPie
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To: Physicist
Don't feel like starting an argument today, sorry.
259 posted on 10/31/2003 2:17:06 PM PST by vpintheak (Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
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