BILL NYE VS KEN HAM: TONIGHT AT 7 PM

[Anomalocaris]

Let's pretend for a moment that both of us try to enter a room but use different methods. My method is to use the door, open it, and walk in (metaphor for science) while your method is to close your eyes, imagine the wall that separates you from the room doesn't really exist, and try to walk through with all the faith you can muster (analogy for faith). I am able to successfully enter the room while you look silly continually bonking into the wall.

After the exercise, we discuss which approach was better. I argue that mine was because I was able to achieve the desired results while you were not. You retort that this is circular reasoning, saying that walking through a doorway "works because it works" and, after all, how could I really be certain I was in the room since I can't know anything if I don't subscribe to Walkthroughwallism.

You see, it's not just that science gives us what we want (our desires), it's that science CAN be used to produce results (practical application or perhaps you would say "ontological bearing on reality"). Because the scientific approach has practical application and predictive capabilities, it clearly gives us a superior method to understand reality than religious faith.

I don't know, you seem to continue to subsribe to WordorkHasBrainSomewhereism eventhough each of the words you have spoken onto him down the years, no matter what trajectory it took in between, has always pass totally unimpeded in one of his ears and out the other.