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Old March 13th, 2003, 12:23 AM
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Default Re: [OT] Plato\'s Pub and Philosophical Society

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Originally posted by Aloofi:
Jack, that was a great post, I encourage you to continuing posting in this thread .
I just don't like how scientists blame religious people of being "religious" when they are nothing more than another religion.
If just science were neutral the way technology is......
Technically, evolution isn't proper science, as it doesn't follow the scientific method:
1) Observe something
2) Hypothisize about what could cause it
3) Test Hypothesis via experiment
4) Check results against Hypothesis
5) Refine Hypothesis to better match results
6) back to 3, repeat indefinately

Evolution and cosmology can't follow this - one cannot test events that happened in the past, and any time scale on the order of thousands of years can't be done due to scientist death, and certainly could not be repeated. Evolutionary theory and modern cosmology use time scales on the order of millions of years. Thus they are not truely scientists. Likewise, even assuming the big bang actually happened, it was a one-shot deal, and cannot be repeated.
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