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To: Old_Mil; Dimensio
..."irrefutable empiric scientific truth". ..

is not the same thing as "not yet refuted empiric scientific truth".

Nothing is science is "irrefutable", (although some theories, like kinetic gas theory or the germ theory of disease or the synthetic theory of evolution are so strongly supported that it is nearly impossible to imagine them being overthrown), but all currently-accepted theories have prevailed when people tried to refute them.

721 posted on 09/20/2006 3:42:51 PM PDT by Virginia-American (What do you call an honest creationist? An evolutionist.)
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To: Virginia-American

Science seeks consensus and most likely scenarios. Religion, at least those tracing back to Abraham, demand certainty and absolute conformity to a creed.

You can see the results of the two approaches to knowledge. Scientists develop hypotheses with increasing applicability and precision, without ever finding TRVTH.

Religious people splinter into increasing fractious denominations an cults, each claiming they are the only path to heaven.

God would be a moral pervert if accurately characterized by any organized religion. a sick game player with no interest in the actual welfare of his creatures.


723 posted on 09/20/2006 3:51:13 PM PDT by js1138 (The absolute seriousness of someone who is terminally deluded.)
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