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Re: Why not Both?
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Wed, 24 Jan 2001 00:06:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Eaton writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Jon Kozan writes:
And the REAL follow up to that is, what if the two disagree? I assume you'll
say that science is necessarily wrong due to human error, though :)

No. Actually, it's not so much due to error as it is to a lack of
understanding. Science admidts to progressively understand things, and when
new evidence is presented it changes it's theory on that matter.  Supposed
disagreements are only due to a lack of data on science's part.

Exactly. And maybe I erred semantically-- your assumption (I think) is that
when what science tells us disagrees from what the Bible tells us, obviously
science's conclusion has erred somehow-- either due to lack of data,
incorrect data, or mis-interpreted data. Hence, not a rejection of science
per se, but with how the scientific method had been executed. Yes?

Probably.
That's not to say that, being humans, we can't mis-interpret the Bible.  But
philosophically, the literal interpretation says that the Bible is relatively
easy to understand - at face value. Not everything, certainly, but most
everything.

-Jon



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(...) Exactly. And maybe I erred semantically-- your assumption (I think) is that when what science tells us disagrees from what the Bible tells us, obviously science's conclusion has erred somehow-- either due to lack of data, incorrect data, or (...) (23 years ago, 23-Jan-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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