To: BikerNYC
Religion's whole idea is that it has the answer (I am not arguing that it does). Science is trying to find the answer and it pretends that its best guesses are answers. As long as science admits its theories are just best guesses, I don't have a problem with that. I just don't like to see scientific theories passes off as fact.
193 posted on
08/16/2005 1:56:13 PM PDT by
Hendrix
To: Hendrix
Science is trying to find the answer and it pretends that its best guesses are answers.
That is where you make your mistake.
Answers never change. They stay the same forever. Religion has a lot of answers.
The conclusions of science are never answers because they are always subject to change. Nothing is ever settled in science. It is always about the theory that is best supported by the evidence today.
Newton did not have an answer to the question of gravity, he had a theory, a guess supported by evidence, which, while good, proved insufficient. Einstein 's theory of gravity was better because it explained more of the evidence.
Get away from thinking that science gives answers and settles questions. It is always about the theory that best explains the evidence that we have today.
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