It looks like spirited irish doesn’t know what makes an idea “scientific”.
Spirited: Ideas, theories, conceptions, presuppositions, assumptions and opinions for example, are not things we can ‘sense,’ they do not belong to the sensory dimension but to the unseen realm, the spiritual dimension of mind, metaphysics and philosophy. This being the case, please explain exactly what, in your “opinion” makes an “idea” scientific.
BroJoek answered your question to me on “what makes an idea ‘scientific’?” on post 72.
I don’t know if you read that post. He said, “And indeed, it has nothing whatever to do with certitude, just the opposite.
Nothing in science is ontologically certain.
No theory (outside mathematics) is ever “proved”.
Every hypothesis is “confirmed” only by failures to disprove it.
Every theory is only accepted as “confirmed” until some future test succeeds in disproving it.”
In order for an idea to be a scientific hypothesis, it has to have a specific mechanism that can potentially be falsifiable by testing or forensic observation.
Examples of specific testable mechanisms:
-evolution by natural selection
-law of gravity
-the gas laws
-cell theory
Examples of untestable ideas
-climate chaos (no specific mechanism trotted out, vague pronouncements)
-precautionary principle (the threat is never specified because it is unknown)
-God (impossible to measure or define)
When Richard Dawkins says that “science” “disproves” God, he is talking nonsense. Just because the Cathedral gave him a science credential doesn’t mean everything he says is science. Many people have already pointed this out to you.
I don’t think you’re well equipped to confront the Eco-fascists or other toxic forces of the Cathedral. There’s a reason the public school system minimizes the teaching of the actual scientific method in favor of just having kids regurgitate “facts”. And unfortunately, many of the Christian homeschoolers aren’t doing it either. This of course results in a neutered opposition against the progressives in power in the Cathedral.