Genesis Creation vs. Darwin's Macroevolution Myth

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I would hope not, if there -was -, if we just figured the earth had given up her secrets once and for all along the lines of a single interpretation of the evidence that would be abandoning the very method used to reach that conclusion.

I sense another round of circles again.

The way I have interpreted your reply is as follows: the scientific method can ultimately never lead to a robust theory that is: (1) agreed upon by all scientists, and (2) immune from being disproved/superseded. If scientific evidence and established theories are ultimately open to interpretation, how can the ultimate scientific truth of the matter ever be established? Is it a case of scientific democracy where the minority interpretations of evidence are ridiculed in favour of the majority perception?

That's how you read that?

I don't wanna speak for Rhythm, he's plenty capable of professing a point more eloquently than I, but I read this as meaning that the whole point of the scientific method is investigation and testing; the point at which we assume that we have the answer totally down is the point at which we are no longer doing science, but also the point where we'll never find out whether we're wrong or not. We've seen this over and over with certain theists: believing you have the truth is the perfect excuse to not care about new information.

Now, about your statements on ridicule... go and look at science. Actual science, maybe not even about evolution or whatever. Go check out some peer reviewed work and the discussion around it in a discipline that has no theological commentary attached; there's no ridicule there. There's review, and testing, and inquiry, and debate... but not ridicule. The only reason intelligent design- I assume that's where you're going here given the thread you're in- is ridiculed is because it's fiction with pretensions of being scientific. Intelligent design proponents have given us nothing even remotely scientific, and they are backed by a population of credulous proponents that will continue to spout the same old, debunked claims over and over and over.

Hell, I'll go one further: Intelligent design has never made a claim at all. Everything intelligent design "claims" is really just a reaction, to disprove evolutionary theory, as though that somehow validates creation.

That's why there's ridicule.