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To: Das Outsider
Not me.

Still no takers?

Come on...

Two simple questions....

1) How successful have supernatural explanations been in observing and predicting the universe and settling issues of factual disagreement?

2) How many scientific theories are dependent upon an unquantifiable and unknowable power that is impossible to observe or predict?

Two very simple questions. Nobody has an answer?
207 posted on 08/19/2005 5:46:40 PM PDT by Mylo ("Those without a sword should sell their cloak and buy one" Jesus of Nazareth)
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To: Mylo
1) How successful have supernatural explanations been in observing and predicting the universe and settling issues of factual disagreement?

Not very, wouldn't be "super" natural by definition if they were.

How successful have scientific explanations been in settling issues of value and worth and what our purpose should be as human beings?

2) How many scientific theories are dependent upon an unquantifiable and unknowable power that is impossible to observe or predict?

None, by definition. Science can only deal with that aspect of reality that can be detected by the senses (or their extensions) and has a quantity and location.

The rest of reality is invisible to pure science. I don't know anyone who would like to live in a reality limited by only that which science knows. Do you?

219 posted on 08/19/2005 6:46:38 PM PDT by D-fendr
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