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To: BroJoeK
“...is, well, unwarranted....”

Well, you are wrong.

If you take presumptuous conclusions, you will
always be wrong.

Every example you gave uses basic assumptions.
(bias)
Every scientist is biased.
(Fact)
Everyone is going to take evidence and sift it thru their world view.
(Bias)
Yes, I am Biased. I prefer to accept God's explanation.
And I will Disagree in most of what you said.
The evidence can support Creationist claims.
(yes, some things are difficult to explain, with our limited knowledge, but Atheist admit the same).

123 posted on 04/30/2013 4:34:42 AM PDT by kimtom (USA ; Freedom is not Free)
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To: kimtom
kimtom: "Yes, I am Biased.
I prefer to accept God's explanation.
And I will Disagree in most of what you said.
The evidence can support Creationist claims."

Of course, you are 100% entitled to believe whatsoever you wish on this subject, just so long as you don't pretend your views are scientific when they are not.

Of course, science is "biased" -- because it attempts to explain reality from a human perspective, meaning in terms that ordinary humans can comprehend.
This human perspective on reality is necessarily not the same as God's perspective, which is reality-as-it-is.
God has no need for human models or short-cuts, no need for words or statistics to summarize reality-as-it-is.
To God, reality is real -- every vibrating sub-atomic particle is as real to God as the entire Universe.

But there's no possible way for humans to comprehend all that, and so we create (or better: discover) models, mathematical formulas and scientific theories to summarize God's work.
But to be "scientific", all of these models & theories must begin with confirmed data, and go where that evidence leads.

As soon as you begin with some other doctrine -- regardless of how divinely inspired it may or may-not have been -- you could well be right, but you are not being scientific.

To be scientific, you have to start with evidence, and not just those items which support your hoped-for results.

124 posted on 04/30/2013 5:09:42 AM PDT by BroJoeK (a little historical perspective....)
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