OK, I finished the thing. My God, that was a spanking!
Junior writes:
[...Science always proposes naturalistic explanations....That is what science does. Sounds one sided, but what is the purpose of proposing explanations that can't be tested?]
Trying to follow the arguments of evolutionists always reminds me of what Wm. F. Buckley wrote of Eleanor Roosevelt: that her unvarying tactic was to squirt, squid-like, an obfuscating cloud of verbal ink on every issue she touched.
You keep telling us that "evolution is a fact"; only the "mechanism" is still in question. That is utter sophistry & you know it; evolution IS the mechanism.
Testable Fact: The universe (a time/space/matter continuum) IS.
Question at issue: How (BY WHAT MECHANISM) did it come to be?
Mechanistic Hypothesis #1: "In the beginning (time) God created the heavens (space) and the earth (matter)" & "in Him all things consist (hold together)".
Mechanistic Hypothesis #2: The universe came to be & holds together via undesigned, unsuperintended, chance.
If #1 is unscientific because it is untestable, so is #2. Quick1 asks "How do you scientifically prove that God did something?" I ask him--or anyone--how you scientifically prove that God did NOT do something?
I hope you've proven it to your own satisfaction, at least, because it's the "truth" you've built your entire edifice on.
The creationist hears the impeccably-credentialed archaeologist Nelson Glueck say, "It can be categorically stated" [that no archaeological discovery has ever controverted a properly-understood Bible reference] & rests in the knowledge that the same can be said of astronomy/biology/physics/chemistry/geology.
You hear your own Dr. Colin Patterson, science author & curator of the world's largest & oldest fossil collection, ask your own Field Museum/AMNH/etc. scientists if they can tell him ONE fact about evolution they KNOW to be true, & they sit silent.
Junior squirts inkily on:
[If science cannot test for it, it has to dismiss it.]
THEN DISMISS IT, FOR GOD'S SAKE; you've been testing it every conceivable way for a century & every empirical test that's moved knowledge in any direction has gone due south on you. Get your obstructionist pseudo-science out of the way of human progress & stop torturing poor little fruitflies.
The Scientific Revolution trod the heels of the Protestant Reformation because the people could finally read the Bible for themselves & know this to be a rational, ordered, predictable earth they had been given dominion over & could freely explore, test, & exploit without fear that the Church would excommunicate them or the sun god be offended & refuse to shine.
Common sense, unfortunately, is not testable, which must explain why evolutionists are so devoid of it.