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If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?

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If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
November 13, 2016 at 10:41 am
(October 21, 2016 at 8:36 pm)Minimalist Wrote: And religion claims it can explain EVERYTHING.... which should be a hint about the validity of its claims.

I think it's AronRa who has the motto that "Science doesn't explain everything, but religion doesn't explain anything."
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."

-Stephen Jay Gould
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RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond? - by Tonus - November 13, 2016 at 10:41 am

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