Quote:Science always works on proof though, and if shonuff claims that science claims something, anything, then he better be prepared to support that claim with evidence.
BZZT. Wrong, wrong, wrongidy wrong. Science NEVER works on proof. Nothing - absolutely NOTHING - in science is ever 'proved'.
Science works on 'best answers'. If science operated to a standard of proof, then science would never progress. To paraphrase Gould, 'proved' in science means that something is established to such a level of certainty that to withhold provisional assent would simply be nutty. 'Provisional' is the key word here. Pickup made the claim that science supports his position that God is a myth. In this, he is perfectly correct. Pickup doesn't make the claim that science proves God is a myth, just that science supports the idea.
I'll grant you that it is a negative kind of support, since there isn't exactly evidence that God is a myth, but since there isn't any evidence whatsoever to demonstrate that God is anything other than a myth, this is good enough to go on with.
Boru
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