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To: gondramB
Science is only based on faith if you don’t understand the science. If the science is sufficiently beyond one’s knowledge, it appears as magic and does require faith.

I can live with this IFone understands that the theory of evolution is not something that any person can reify, so that in a strict sense, no one can know it, as one much understand by studying an actual organism. That the devil is in the details is a cautionary maxim in appoaching a theory that tries to explains so much, much grander in ambition than Einstein's general relativity theory.

131 posted on 05/13/2007 8:19:28 PM PDT by RobbyS ( CHIRHO)
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To: RobbyS

>>Science is only based on faith if you don’t understand the science. If the science is sufficiently beyond one’s knowledge, it appears as magic and does require faith.


I can live with this IFone understands that the theory of evolution is not something that any person can reify, so that in a strict sense, no one can know it, as one much understand by studying an actual organism. That the devil is in the details is a cautionary maxim in appoaching a theory that tries to explains so much, much grander in ambition than Einstein’s general relativity theory.<<

I’m paraphrasing Arthur C. Clarke (2001 A Space Odyssey and 30 other novels)

He wrote the three laws of prediction.

1. When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

2. The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

3. Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.


168 posted on 05/14/2007 9:27:26 AM PDT by gondramB (God only has ten rules, uncle Hank, and he has a much bigger house.)
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