(August 16, 2013 at 11:25 am)fr0d0 Wrote: Supernatural events cannot be proved to be supernatural.
But maybe we can get to the point where we go "HMMMMMMMM."
Like for instance people are able to walk upon water if they carry a copy of the Bible, but the moment they hand it to someone else... =SPLASH=
We would be able to confirm that they are walking upon water, which shouldn't be possible, and we could link it to a specific action (carrying a copy of the Bible) but we could not explain the physics behind it. That would get us pretty close, wouldn't it? Almost like those guys on TV who go to haunted locations and walk around in the dark with their night-vision goggles screaming "WE CAN HELP YOU, JUST TALK TO US" at the walls!
"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
