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Quote by: Caduceus Hey, I'm a poli sci major, science is not my thing, so I'd appreciate it if you dropped the ad hominem. Why don't you explain, then, what a "theory" is in scientific contexts? |
He's not ad homing, Doc, even if it sounds like one. He's making a point... gravity is only a theory, in that we do not know exactly what gravity is or how it works. All we really know is that it does work. Same for evolution. We can theorise about how it does or doesn't work, but the fact that it does work is obvious, because the evidence is everywhere. The difference is that the theory of gravity does not conflict with the text of a 2,000 year old collection of scriptures.
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Quote by: Caduceus From my experience, the whole of political secularism is predicated on the notion that they are intellectually superior to theists because science and evolution is on their side, so they are quite clearly using it as a political bludgeon. |
Then perhaps if the theists would simply accept that science is what it is, they wouldn't be handing the "political secularists" such an easy club to bash them with.
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Quote by: rcne The amazing thing about evolution is that the entire concept only originated a few years ago, about 150 I think. And yet it has become the gospel of science. |
The same could be said from electro-magnetism, plate tectonics, aeronautics, micro-biology and any number of scientific arenas, to say nothing of quantum physics, computer science, space medicine and gawd knows what else. Things have moved really fast in the last 200 years...So what?
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Quote by: MerlineByte In the sciences a theroy is a leap of faith that is never consistent, a myth (or fairy tale) describing the behaviour of the entire universe, and everything in it, thus originating from a suspect old man, in a history of frauds, lies, smoke and mirrors, and supported by the originators of the lie. |
Merline, human beings have flown to the moon and back, conquered diseases, created unimaginable machines and built a world vastly different from what it was a few hundred years ago and a few hundred before that, and a few hundred before that, all based on, in your words, a history of frauds, lies, and smoke and mirrors supported by the originators of lies.
Do you find all sciences so flawed or only those which offend your spiritual sensibilities?
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