(February 8, 2016 at 4:52 pm)ApeNotKillApe Wrote: True, dark matter is just one explanation, that's why it's a hypothesis. I'm not even attempting to defend the idea, I'm discerning the difference between an informed proposition and an uninformed presupposition.
BINGO
Scientific method discovered dark mater.
"spirit" is simply a loaded cliche humans can twist to mean whatever they want.
Humans do not understand that their is a completely different language going on when science uses a word, and when a layperson uses a word.
Same mistake theists make with words like "Law". They think it means a bunch of people in government deciding a regulation everyone has to follow. "Law" as scientific method uses, is not that. "Law" is a word in scientists use to describe consistent tested and falsified data repeatedly.
Same mistake they make with the word "Theory". Laypeople stupidly take that to mean "guess". No, in scientific language "Theory" also is language used to describe observations based on repeated experimentation.
"spirit" has many meanings, and depending on religion it can be a casual non literal word, but most of the time for the superstitious it is a literal claim of the super natural existing, like a demon, or a good spirit, or the spirit of a loved one in ghost form.
You cannot plug the ill defined naked assertion of "spirit" into a scientific "hypothesis", much less a "theory".
The better option to explain why the word "spirit" exists, is that people merely like the idea of such.
