[hosepipe]

[ I'm sorry, but when you have several hundreds, if not thousands, of people double checking your findings any personal biases are going to disappear. ]

One would assume so, but thats just an assumption..
Like the BIG bang.. is just an assumption by many assuming the same thing.. but it is indeed an assumption.. Up until about 1900 many assumed that opium and mercury(compounds) was a beneficial soup(laudanum)-medication..

Assumption carrys the baggage of spin.. allowing immense room for deniablity.. for culpability.. What culpability?.. The culpability of spinning for a predetermined agenda..

Philosophical reagents work at the base of a matter.. and can rearrange your grits..

[Junior]

No. Religion is an assumption (the assumption that there's a God running the show). Science is at least verifiable. Any assumptions are going to be smoothed over. Any individual piece of evidence might be interpreted any number of ways; the totality of the evidence, though, will yield very limited explanations.

[gomaaa]

Like the BIG bang.. is just an assumption by many assuming the same thing.. but it is indeed an assumption.. Up until about 1900 many assumed that opium and mercury(compounds) was a beneficial soup(laudanum)-medication..

People believed a lot of crazy things were medicinally good for a long time. Witness the Then they actually started doing systematic studies to gather evidence and accounted for things like the placebo effect.

The big bang is NOT an assumption... It is a theoretical explanation that fully accounts for the avaialbe evidence.