(June 10, 2015 at 9:02 am)SteveII Wrote:(June 10, 2015 at 8:56 am)abaris Wrote: I suggest to look up the scientific term theory and it's meaning, as opposed to it's casual usage in everyday language. If you don't even understand the basics, you should refrain from trying to discuss it. Unless you want to make a fool of yourself, that is.
If we use this definition,
A scientific theory is a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world that is acquired through the scientific method and repeatedly tested and confirmed through observation and experimentation. Then comon ancestry and origins of life aren't even theories.
Steve-
Is there any scientific way to prove that the science is the only way to prove what is and isn't true?
And if not, doesn't that push this discussion into the realm of philosophy?
I don't understand how science - which is focused on the material world that can be observed and measured, etc - can tell us ANYTHING about the immaterial or spiritual world. Unless I'm missing something, it seems to me that all that science can say is, "Gee, we don't know." And since absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, this is really not much of an answer to the question of God's existence.
Thoughts?