(March 18, 2013 at 8:17 pm)jstrodel Wrote: There is nothing unscientific about miracles. No one has ever disproved that miracles could happen and no one ever will. If you are talking about Young Earth Creationism or flood geology or something like that, that it is a different story.Has science proven that miracles are possible? I mean the biblical ones. Has anyone turned water to wine? Walked on the surface of a lake or sea? Cured paralysis with a word? Cured blindness with spit and dirt? If miracles are scientific, then they can be reproduced and they can be verified.
jstrodel Wrote:There are so many books written about the relationship between science and the Bible. It is not as if the voices of hundreds of thousands or millions of scientists over the last few hundred years who were Christians around the world have failed to provide any rebuttal to the technocrats bid for power.And what is the essence of those rebuttals? Scientific explanations that allow us to reproduce miracles, or perform them under conditions that allow us to test and verify? Science is pretty straightforward; if miracles are scientific, then science understands the mechanics behind them and can reproduce them, or predict their occurrence reliably and record them clearly.
"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
-Stephen Jay Gould
