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To: WildHorseCrash

What is the difference between a "miracle" and "matter acting contrary to our understanding?" The former you reject as unscientific, yet the latter you do not. Please explain the difference without making use of circular reasoning.


1,035 posted on 11/18/2005 10:21:09 AM PST by Fester Chugabrew
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To: Fester Chugabrew
What is the difference between a "miracle" and "matter acting contrary to our understanding?" The former you reject as unscientific, yet the latter you do not. Please explain the difference without making use of circular reasoning.

I didn't make that distinction, you did by misquoting what I wrote. I said our "contrary to our current understanding" of those laws, not contrary to your understanding." Don't pull the old creationist lie-technique of misquoting people's work.

A miracle is a made-up story by religious people to explain things that they don't understand or to give the heroes in their myths superpowers in order to justify the religious beliefs and the worship of those heroes.

On the other hand, our current understanding of the laws of science will change, because no one is omniscient. We will learn, through observations, theorization and experimentation, where the actions of matter do not match our models and adjust the models accordingly.

1,041 posted on 11/18/2005 10:48:56 AM PST by WildHorseCrash
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