(September 25, 2013 at 11:47 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: Next time you wanna plead that whole..."one day we will discover the answer" cop-out, just substitute the words...God works in mysterious ways.
Did I say we will discover the answer? No, that was just you projecting your inadequacies on me. We will always have gaps, as science gets increasingly esoteric the further we get. The point is that science is never content with those gaps or simply using an empty filler like goddidit.
That fact that you are complaining about gaps shows that you would rather have an incorrect answer than have to admit there are things unknown. Fortunately, not everyone shares your cowardice and our body of knowledge increases as we refuse to be content with a vapid answer like god.
(September 25, 2013 at 11:47 pm)Lion IRC Wrote: The bible says God did it. That statement is not altered or peer reviewed or subject to popular opinion. Science has the luxury of getting stuff wrong and changing the "facts" as it goes. (The "beauty of science" - we get to stuff up and rewrite a new tentative hypothesis and still pretend it is somehow a hallmark of high IQ)
You think rigidly holding to a dogmatic position rather than always reinterpreting that position with the new evidence is a good thing? You are the reason I weep for the human race.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell