(October 19, 2009 at 2:44 pm)Eilonnwy Wrote: If you can't accept a scientific fact because you would rather believe God created the first humans in the Garden of Eden, that's where the answer of "God did it" prevents scientific inquiry.
But what if creation is what really happened? Do you ever consider that it might be what really happened, i.e., the absolute truth? I doubt it.
Remember the scientific method can only provide models that will provide a naturalistic explanation for something. If you automatically rule out a "supernatural" explanation, you may be ruling out the real answer, i.e. the absolute truth. So while common descent does provide a naturalistic model that explains a lot of what we observe, not every observation fits well with common descent and that may not be how things really happened. I actually find it laughable for anyone (scientists included) to think that the scientific method can provide any more than a guess at what happened in the unobserved past, let alone millions or billions of years ago. I guess I think the scientific method is a lot more limited than you do.
