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☢The Theistic Response➼ to Atheists saying, "It Doesn't mean God Did it"
RE: ☢The Theistic Response➼ to Atheists saying, "It Doesn't mean God Did it"
(November 20, 2016 at 11:38 am)The Joker Wrote: If you think about it, just because most people think creationist scientists are wrong doesn't mean they are actually wrong right? How do you know they are wrong? Have you looked at what they said?

There is no such thing as creationist science. There is science. Creationists don't research ways to detect the hand of god via natural methods that can be tested and validated or falsified. To date, their efforts are focused on disproving any discoveries or theories that do not fit into the creationist narrative. Since peer review and continuing research and experimentation are an important part of science, they're just doing science. How do we know they're wrong? Well, if they have not managed to overturn or even revise any current scientific theories then it would appear that they are wrong, but that's part of science as well. You just have to keep trying until you exhaust all options or succeed in discovering something new/different.

As for what they have said, is it in the peer-reviewed literature? Or is it just specious claims on religious websites that feature statements that directly contradict any claim to scientific honesty? The thing that makes the scientific method so useful is that it provides a means of dismissing spurious claims and testing hypotheses and theories in order to either arrive at the truth or get as close as we can until we learn more. After hundreds of years of learning more, we still can't validate a single claim for the existence of a god. How long can you continue to bat .000 and still pretend that you're on to something?
"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: ☢The Theistic Response➼ to Atheists saying, "It Doesn't mean God Did it" - by Tonus - November 20, 2016 at 2:28 pm

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