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To: Rudder
Perhaps you are right. But the vast majority of adherents to evolution that I come in contact with seem to think that the 'fact' of evolution disproves God. So in essence, they are claiming that science has done what you say it cannot do. (By the way, the people I'm refering to are wrong on two counts - evolution is a theory not a 'fact' and science cannot prove or disprove God.)
403 posted on 02/06/2002 9:13:47 AM PST by MEGoody
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To: MEGoody
...evolution is a theory not a 'fact' and science cannot prove or disprove God.

This is exactly what I said earlier on this thread. Let me add what else I said on this issue: 'not only it is true that science cannot prove or disprove God, science won't even try, for such questions are admittedly (by scientists) outside the realm of the scientific method.' The only truths that science seeks are those which are discoverable through measurement and data collection. The rest is for the philsophers and theologians. Evolution is a theory and science makes predictions (hypotheses) based upon the tenets of that theory and then tests these hypotheses to assess their validity.

Therefore, and since science will and can not tackle the existence of God question, science's effort with evolutionary theory has nothing to do with proving or disproving the existence of God.

422 posted on 02/06/2002 1:21:20 PM PST by Rudder
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