(January 22, 2021 at 2:36 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: With religious beliefs, the underlying point of reform or revision often seems to be to reassert their truth in a rehabilited form, not deny it.
I'm not sure what you're asking. Neither religious beliefs nor scientific theories require rejection over revision. There's is always some auxiliary hypothesis in the model which can be modified to prevent rejection. That is why science often progresses, not by the weight of evidence, but by older generations dying out and taking their ideas with them.