Exactly. I believe in miracles, but if I were a scientist I would have to assume no miracles, then proceed.
Of course, as a person (which is a bigger category than the category "scientist"), the assumption of no miracles is a philosophical position, not just a working principle.
It just seems to me that many of our creationists want scientists to somehow include God in their studies (as if.), and many scientists talk as if their scientific work is the sum of their personal interaction with the universe.
Impoverished on both sides.
bttt for a GREAT post!!
BTW ~ I love the quotes you have on your profile page. The order in which you have placed the two below, is perfect.
If one doesn't have the vocabulary mentioned in the first, one will not understand what is meant by what is said in the second.:
"We do think in words, and the fewer words we know, the more restricted our thoughts. As our vocabulary expands , so does our power to think....If we limit and distort language, we limit and distort personality."
Madeleine L'Engle: A Circle Of Quiet, p.149
"The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts...[he] ascribes all his failures to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy."
H.L. Mencken