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Re: Science and beliefs (was Re: Alien races)
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Fri, 6 Apr 2001 15:44:52 GMT
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Selçuk Göre wrote:
> What I want to learn is, this "young earth" thing is a "belief" or do
> you have any support for it (scientific, I mean), or to be in a position
> to say this and defend.
Science can't prove whether it is a "young earth" or an "old earth," so
everyone has to *believe* that one of them is true. So it is a "belief"
thing for everyone.
> But everything starts changing direction if you put this as a
> "scientific" theory, then I call this simply "stupid" if I use softest
> appropriate term of the language.
I understand where you're coming from and what this means, so I take no
offense. :-)
> The main
> idea is, science never believes anything. It observes the evidence, and
> produce theories based on them.
It's more like science is a tool man uses to gain knowledge about the
universe. The *scientists* interpret this knowledge and form the theories.
But there also is no completely objective scientist. Everyone has his own
bias which creeps into his theories, no matter how objective he tried to be.
--Ryan
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| (...) The point is that you attempt to invalidate science on one hand, but it's suddenly valid when it serves your purpose. You do this very thing below. (...) The last willfully misconstrue evidence, take it out of context, ignore what is (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) I think my phrase was quite open, although I'm not a native english speaker and screw up saying the exact words quite frequently. Actually, you seem to be understand since you already answered the question...:-) What I want to learn is, this (...) (23 years ago, 6-Apr-01, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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