Sounds like solipsism. "If we cannot prove anything, then everything must be taken on faith. Science is therefore faith-based!" In other words, science and religion are on the same level because they both operate the same way at some fundamental level. It seems to me like the difference between the person who wants to become a better person by improving himself and the person who wants to feel better by putting others down. If you can drag science down to religion's level, then your inability to prove your beliefs are real is less of a problem.
Let me know the day that we can pray our way to putting men on the moon or making a longer-lasting battery or a keyless ignition system for our cars. Until then, I'll just shrug my shoulders when people try to equate the scientific method with faith-based belief in mythical creatures.
Let me know the day that we can pray our way to putting men on the moon or making a longer-lasting battery or a keyless ignition system for our cars. Until then, I'll just shrug my shoulders when people try to equate the scientific method with faith-based belief in mythical creatures.
"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
