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Re: Holy crap! Four out of five scientists claim....
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 16 Oct 2003 15:00:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, John Neal wrote:
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Science does not pretend to have the answer to the origin of the universe.
It has speculation, to be sure, and some ideas on how the creation of the
universe progressed. ) It’s one of those questions that we don’t see the
answer to now, but from a different vantage point may become clear.
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What I am saying is that this particular question is unique and cannot, by
definition, be answered by Science.
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That’s called special pleading, and it’s a fallacy. It’s a double-standard
based in circular reasoning and cannot be used in any logically sound argument.
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What you’re saying is that since science doesn’t have an answer at the
moment, it will never come up with one.
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Science will never come up with the answer period. Any speculation about
the origin of the universe is pure flattery. Even if Science could prove
that the entire universe began with all matter compressed into a sphere the
size of a golf ball, it still can offer no explanation as to where matter
came from in the first place.
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Well, that’s as much a statement of faith as anything I’ve heard you make, and
it borders on raw superstition. You claim that science will never know the
answer solely on the basis of what science now knows. That’s equivalent to the
statement, a few centuries ago, that we’d never be able to see microscopic
objects because we could not currently see microscopic objects.
In fact, numerous “where did it all come from” solutions have already been
posed, so science is certainly able at least to address the question. The
problem is that, currently, we don’t have the tools to verify our hypotheses.
All in good time.
But even if science doesn’t ever resolve the question, that doesn’t mean that
God is the answer. To assume that God is the answer is a fallacy on numerous
levels.
Dave!
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