(February 18, 2016 at 3:17 am)Huggy74 Wrote: You know what else "are continuously subject to change, re-evaluation, and reconfiguration in light of new facts and evidence"? Beliefs, opinions and speculations.
I'll fix this for you: Beliefs, opinions, and speculations may change on a whim regardless of facts or evidence because they, by their very nature, are not contingent upon them.
Quote:What is not subject to change under any circumstance is truth. What's true will ALWAYS remain true, any new evidence will corroborate the truth, not change it.
Correct! And the only way to determine the truth to the highest degree of certainty possible is the scientific method. What you don't get to say is, "this two thousand-year-old book is the truth because God said it is, and the bible is the word of God." Sorry. That in no way is evidence of any truth.
Discovery; revelation (dare I say) of our universe is a process. The fact that the scientific method is by its very design a self-correcting machine, makes it the most accurate tool for gathering facts and evidence about the world we live in. Facts and evidence lead to the truth, or as close to the truth as we can come. Your pointing out of instances where science has come to an incorrect conclusion actually bolsters my point, not yours. The difference between science and religion is that science is willing to say, "this isn't quite right. We are going to keep working until we get the answer that best reflects reality." Religion just screams by fiat, "this IS the truth, because it IS!" over, and over until people want to puke (namely me).
And science is why we are here in this world today. This is why we have modern medicine, and the longest life span our species has ever seen. Do you go to the doctor when you are sick, Huggy? If your physician offers you the most cutting-edge treatment with the maximum possible efficacy, are you going to turn him down because "science is wrong all the time and everything is just a theory"? Will you seek a cure in the pages of your book? I seriously doubt it.
Tell me, Huggy: if science is such a joke to you, why do you try so hard to reconcile its findings with your holy book?
Quote:link http://www.livescience.com/21491-what-is...heory.html
Facts and theories are two different things. In the scientific method, there is a clear distinction between facts, which can be observed and/or measured, and theories, which are scientists’ explanations and interpretations of the facts.
No, you're right, I shouldn't have linked you to anything that would require you to critically think. I'm sorry, I should know better by now.
Quote:My whole point is that scientific FACT corroborates what the bible has been saying, it doesn't disprove it, the bible told you time was relative long before the theory of relativity
LOL! Are you kidding me?
2 Peter 3:8 - But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
This is no way Einstein's theory of Special Relativity, lol. Science doesn't corroborate the bible. You just happened to retrospectively find vague, and poetic prose from the bible that doesn't particularly contradict the scientific theory that you already know about. Thanks to the scientific method.. And Einstein.
Quote:Evolution is a fact in so much that each creature evolves after its "kind", cats evolve from cats and dogs from dogs, But the idea that we all evolved from some primordial soup is pure conjecture.
Your understanding of evolutionary biology is incorrect, and I suspect willfully ignorant, but that has been demonstrated in this thread already. You just refuse to acknowledge it. Www://talkorigins.org. You're welcome.
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Wiser words were never spoken.
