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To: Names Ash Housewares

Here you go.

Take a look at this site.

http://www.setterfield.org/relativityandc.html

What is observable and quantifiable can be interpreted in more than one way.

The 'scientific process' is limited *by definition* to natural explanations. Not the best 'a priori' limit to place on your acceptable explanations when supernatural vs natural is the question you are trying to answer.

It is impossible to find evidence of the supernatural in science, *by definition*.

Don't be deceived.


592 posted on 09/28/2006 5:40:01 PM PDT by GourmetDan
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594 posted on 09/28/2006 5:43:15 PM PDT by ml1954 (ID = Case closed....no further inquiry allowed...now move along.)
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To: GourmetDan
The 'scientific process' is limited *by definition* to natural explanations. Not the best 'a priori' limit to place on your acceptable explanations when supernatural vs natural is the question you are trying to answer.

But it is the best way to build an airplane. Or understand the physical Universe's rules.

596 posted on 09/28/2006 5:47:00 PM PDT by freedumb2003 ("Critical Thinking"="I don't understand it so it must be wrong.")
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To: GourmetDan

"It is impossible to find evidence of the supernatural in science>"

And why faith in such things for me remains quite elusive.


680 posted on 09/28/2006 8:30:30 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: GourmetDan
The 'scientific process' is limited *by definition* to natural explanations. Not the best 'a priori' limit to place on your acceptable explanations when supernatural vs natural is the question you are trying to answer.

No, not all of the evos are trying to answer that. Many of them have either taken a materialistic worldview as a given, assumed (for the nonce) that the existence of God is irrelevant--(if God interferes enough to make Himself known, then I can't count on "good enough" results to make predictions anyway, so I might as well assume "no God" in the meantime), or they are only concerned with the material aspect of things *in the first place*. "Whether of not God exists, I'm not looking at right now. Just consider the juxtabronchial organ secretions in the higher molluscs!"

It is impossible to find evidence of the supernatural in science, *by definition*.

Generally yes, unless hitherto unforeseen results cause you to question the whole philosophical underpinnings.

Don't be deceived.

Reg flag in front of a bull. Ask them to engage in more rigorous parsing of their logical positions.

Cheers!

1,010 posted on 09/30/2006 11:57:01 PM PDT by grey_whiskers
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