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To: Notary Sojac
“There are "creationists" whose belief is in a supreme being who brought life into existence, so that life did not originate from the random interactions of molecules. You can believe that and not have any problem with 99.9999999% of today's science.” [excerpt]
Except that science asserts that all life originated via natural process. (ei, nothing created)

“There are also "creationists" whose belief is that the universe came into being less than 10,000 years ago, that dinosaurs and humans were contemporaries, and that the earth was once flooded with water to the point that the highest mountains were covered (almost six miles of water above current sea level). If you believe this, then yes, you and science are strangers. [excerpt, bold emphasis mine]
So, if I don't agree with you, I'm a stranger to science?

If science is defined as the untestable assumption that Darwin proposed, then I suppose I am somewhat a stranger to it.

However, if we are talking about empirical science, then it is the Evolutionists who are out to lunch.
35 posted on 03/26/2009 3:13:27 PM PDT by Fichori (The only bailout I'm interested in is the one where the entire Democrat party leaves the county)
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To: Fichori

How - exactly - does one go about testing for the supernatural?


37 posted on 03/26/2009 3:17:50 PM PDT by DevNet (What's past is prologue)
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To: Fichori
"If science is defined as the untestable assumption that Darwin proposed,

Untestable? Perhaps. Perhaps not. Just because something isn't testable, doesn't mean it's not observable.

On need look no further than the HIV virus. Science has been observing it's evolutionary progress for well over 25 years now. The same can be said for hundreds of thousands of other virus and bacterium that have been under relentless study since the time of Pasteur, Cohn and Koch.

50 posted on 03/26/2009 3:28:09 PM PDT by Big_Monkey
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To: Fichori; Notary Sojac
If science is defined as the untestable assumption that Darwin proposed...

Ummm...sorry to burst your bubble, there, Fichori, but even within the 6,000 years most creationists say is the age of the universe, human beings have evolved markedly.

We know empirically that human beings once lived in caves, in small communal groups; that they were hunter-gatherers, used primitive stone tools, and wore animal skins in cold climates and little-to-nothing in hot climates. Humans gradually evolved from nomadic hunter-gathers to farmers; from farmers to craftsmen; from craftsmen to industrialists; from industrialists to our own information age.

BTW, even if one accepts that the universe was created 6,000 years ago, we know that the time of Jesus occurred 4,000 years later. That means even religious beliefs have evolved from the time of the cave dwellers. Try wrapping your mind around that puzzle for awhile.

60 posted on 03/26/2009 3:44:09 PM PDT by Wolfstar (Elections have thousands of consequences. Some minor, some major...and some that can kill you.)
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