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To: Conspiracy Guy

Scientists have a limited outlook because they want to believe in a world which exists physically and stuff happens physically and randomly, with no purpose or plan behind it all. This desire for there to be no purpose is not scientific. The mere existence of life, its evolution or whatever you want to call it, and especially the development of consciousness are incredible mysteries. Even if I attribute it all to nature and not to God, Why?? Why does it all exist, and why did we rise up from nature to look back on it all and reflect? Science not only doesn't know, it doesn't want to know.


43 posted on 03/09/2005 2:34:42 PM PST by Williams
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To: Williams

I agree.


53 posted on 03/09/2005 2:39:49 PM PST by Conspiracy Guy (Reading is fundamental. Comprehension is optional.)
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To: Williams
Scientists have a limited outlook because they want to believe in a world which exists physically and stuff happens physically and randomly, with no purpose or plan behind it all.

Science is also not good at determining things that are not testable, such as macroevolution and abiogenesis. If it cannot be empirically tested, it just will never be known with any kind of certainty. In the development of a Steam Turbine Generator, many of the initial beliefs about the values in the Energy equation were wrong as they proved by testing the theory, which cannot be done with either abiogenesis or macroevolution or the the big bang theory either.

Even radiometric dating has to make assumptions about the composition of the material when it was "Created" or "Formed" or when its timeclock was "Reset" to zero, assuming that the electron counter is telling them what they think it is telling them.

Bottom line, applying the scientific method to how we got here, however long ago that was, is a waste of time and money. And although many "scientists" say you have to believe in macroevolution to make advances in microbiology, we all know that is bunk.

It is quite the industry, with one group saying that the Yucatan Meteorite wiped out the dinosaurs and another saying the proliferation of mammals did it. Personally, I am all for the increased volcanic activity theory killing the dinosaurs and causing an ice age at the same time, but that is just me.
72 posted on 03/09/2005 2:48:44 PM PST by microgood
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