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To: Aric2000
"After studying religion, science, etc, I found that common sense tells me that science, grounded in facts, is much more reliable then religion based on ancient writings."

So why is it that science reevaluates it's hypotheses so often? Science seems riddled with mistakes imho. In the last week here at FR:
Is the Universe older than expected?

"One possible explanation is that something is wrong with the way astronomers measure the age of objects in the Universe."

Missing-link fossil wasn't a fish -- it has a pelvis

"A fossil previously mistaken for the remains of an extinct fish turns out to . . ."

I've read the Nag Hammadi scrolls and all that you use as "evidence" that you know what you are talking about. I'll answer all your questions about thrology as soon as you admit that science is what actually evolves as new knowledge proves old "facts" wrong, time and time again.

672 posted on 07/13/2002 12:19:16 PM PDT by Drumbo
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To: Drumbo
It is a part of science to be reevaluated, each new discovery or theory starts a whole new set of questions to be answered. Science will never find all the answers, but it gives us a clue of how nature works and is working.

Evolution has lasted for quite a while, for a theory to last that long is quite remarkable. The fact of the matter is that the basic tenets are correct, it is the specifics that are not quite there yet. They will get there, it is just a matter of time.

Every time there is a dig, or a reassessment of some fossil, our knowledge grows.

That is the other big difference between science and religion, science will admit if something else has come up to replace a theory or some fact, but religion is never wrong, and when proven to be wrong will fight tooth and nail that it is still not wrong.
682 posted on 07/13/2002 1:49:32 PM PDT by Aric2000
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To: Drumbo
I'll answer all your questions about thrology as soon as you admit that science is what actually evolves as new knowledge proves old "facts" wrong, time and time again.

I have never said otherwise, and it would be outright idiocy and stupidity to say otherwise. Each old fact thatis disproved, is replaced with a new set of facts, that creates a whole new set of questions etc, etc.
684 posted on 07/13/2002 1:54:51 PM PDT by Aric2000
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