(April 16, 2016 at 9:01 pm)Jehanne Wrote:(April 16, 2016 at 6:39 pm)RoadRunner79 Wrote: There are a fair number of theories in science, which contradict each other (or are at least incoherent with each other). I would also disagree that religion can't be falsified or corrected. Just because something isn't repeatable doesn't mean that there is no reason or evidence behind it. Also I think you are of a misunderstanding, that so many contradict each other.
Your statement about scientific theories is just misleading and false, and I would invite you to provide some examples. General Relativity, Einstein's theory of gravitation, is being tested and retested and tested again and again right up to the present day. No religion receives such scrutiny because no religion makes any predictions which anyone can test. Theology is a predictionless academic discipline, and as the late Professor Carl Sagan once said, "Philosophers have no laboratory in which they can test their ideas." As religion makes no testable predictions, religious belief is unfalsifiable.
Yers, and as to the topic of this thread, all the repeatable evidence points to a hot big bang model and a beginning of the universe. Common descent evolution is not repeatable (or is at least attempts so far are unsuccessful). However while it may be repeatable, if that is the only evidence you are going to accept, then this type of evolution is absolutely false. It is a category error, to require the same evidence, for something to which it does not apply. Common descent evolution is a historical claim, and therefore you need to look at the historical evidence.
