(November 12, 2012 at 6:23 am)Daniel Wrote: Have you heard of Ignaz Semmelweis? Of course you have, and what happened when he did something that he didn't have a sufficient scientific explanation for? That's right, he was "creatively fired"! Okay, so we now know his theory about cadaverous poisoning was hogwash, but really the theory didn't matter as much as the observation did it? He was laughed at because he didn't have a sufficient theory, but he had clear and certain observable evidence.
And what mistake did they make? That's right - expecting to have answers from science. Semmelweis had a prediction for the behavioural chance that was consistent with observation, it didn't matter whether or not he had the answer or whether or not he contracted the scientific consensus at the time, regardless he was right wasn't he?
You should understand that even if every scientific theory humans have ever made turns out to be completely incorrect, the credibility of religion is in no way enhanced by this?
Scientific methodologies may fail disastrously, and frequently have. Religion has failed completely to give an accurate picture of the natural world. The reason science is the right course and religion is the wrong course is because scientists can admit that an approach has failed and will attempt others. The religious cannot accept the idea that their scripture got something wrong and will ignore reality.
