RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
March 31, 2014 at 12:29 pm
(March 31, 2014 at 12:12 am)snowtracks Wrote: the scientific method has it's limitations. for instance, nothing can be found out about eschatology which is future oriented: death, afterlife, how the universe ends, the eternal state. and how does one determine that it's true? by hearing or reading it.Yes, science is limited to the things we can detect in some form or another. Anything outside of that can be made up, since there is no way to verify it. Which is why humans have worshiped thousands (probably millions) of gods throughout our existence.
And no, we do not determine that the unknowable is true by "hearing or reading it." That doesn't make any sense at all.
"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
