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Why 'Science' tries to separate the beginning from Evolution!
#51
RE: Why 'Science' tries to separate the beginning from Evolution!
(May 24, 2020 at 1:36 am)JohnMBauer Wrote:
(May 24, 2020 at 1:08 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Sun shines down and plants grow.  There's our baseline.  Above aside and in concert with that..is whatever gods explicitly do.

So, if I understand you correctly, what you're asking me is whether I acknowledge that the natural world operates independent of God. In response I would say that this proposition (1) is not a scientific one, and
Is that a problem?  Do you only notice Scientific Propositions™?

Quote:is in dire need of evidence or valid justification.
Is it, though?  Rain falls, plants grow.....

Quote:Does the natural world indeed operate independent of God? I can't acknowledge that it does if I haven't been given any good reason to do so.
Try coming up with a good reason that god's included in all of the natural dross. What hole does god™ fill in plants growing, exactly?
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#52
RE: Why 'Science' tries to separate the beginning from Evolution!
Quote:So, if I understand you correctly, what you're asking me is whether I acknowledge that the natural world operates independent of God. 

Or at least appears to by any mean we can detect 


Quote:In response I would say that this proposition (1) is not a scientific one

The above isn't scientific then please show god interacting in some detectable manor to refute methodological naturalism 





Quote:, and (2) is in dire need of evidence or valid justification.
The above isn't valid then please show god interacting in some detectable manor to refute methodological naturalism 




Quote: Does the natural world indeed operate independent of God? I can't acknowledge that it does if I haven't been given any good reason to do so.
Have you been good reason to assume it acts dependent on god ? Because nature does not seem to indicate such a dependence .
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#53
RE: Why 'Science' tries to separate the beginning from Evolution!
(May 24, 2020 at 1:36 am)JohnMBauer Wrote: Does the natural world indeed operate independent of God? I can't acknowledge that it does if I haven't been given any good reason to do so.

But let's say this is the good reason that world operates independent of God

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What would you say? Maybe that God is just an observer of nature and that he doesn't participate in it?
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#54
RE: Why 'Science' tries to separate the beginning from Evolution!
(May 24, 2020 at 1:53 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Is that a problem?  Do you only notice Scientific Propositions™?

Nope.

(May 24, 2020 at 1:53 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Is it, though?  Rain falls, plants grow.....

But independent of God?

(May 24, 2020 at 1:53 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Try coming up with a good reason that god's included in all of the natural dross.

I thought I was being asked about acknowledging the proposition you had stated.
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#55
RE: Why 'Science' tries to separate the beginning from Evolution!
Quote:But independent of God?
Do we have any reason or means of coming o he conclusion it's dependent on god ?
"Change was inevitable"


Nemo sicut deus debet esse!

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#56
RE: Why 'Science' tries to separate the beginning from Evolution!
(May 24, 2020 at 1:53 am)SUNGULA Wrote: ... please show god interacting in some detectable manor to refute methodological naturalism ...

I agree with methodological naturalism, doing science in a way that explores nature without reference to God.
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#57
RE: Why 'Science' tries to separate the beginning from Evolution!
(May 24, 2020 at 2:15 am)JohnMBauer Wrote:
(May 24, 2020 at 1:53 am)SUNGULA Wrote: ... please show god interacting in some detectable manor to refute methodological naturalism ...

I agree with methodological naturalism, doing science in a way that explores nature without reference to God.
Good . Now the next question becomes why add god at all? What does it add ?
"Change was inevitable"


Nemo sicut deus debet esse!

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 “No matter what men think, abortion is a fact of life. Women have always had them; they always have and they always will. Are they going to have good ones or bad ones? Will the good ones be reserved for the rich, while the poor women go to quacks?”
–SHIRLEY CHISHOLM


      
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#58
RE: Why 'Science' tries to separate the beginning from Evolution!
(May 24, 2020 at 2:06 am)JohnMBauer Wrote: Nope.
Good, won't be a problem between us.

Quote:But independent of God?
Yeah, independent of god.  Whole bunch of shit happens in the world that doesn't require a god, regardless of whether there are gods.

I'm sure we can agree.

Quote:I thought I was being asked about acknowledging the proposition you had stated.

Sure.
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#59
RE: Why 'Science' tries to separate the beginning from Evolution!
(May 24, 2020 at 2:24 am)SUNGULA Wrote: Good . Now the next question becomes why add god at all? What does it add ?

I'm a Christian theist. That's a theological world-view.

But I'm open to following where the evidence leads. I'll acknowledge that nature operates independent of God if there is evidence that it does.



(May 24, 2020 at 2:32 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: Yeah, independent of god.  Whole bunch of shit happens in the world that doesn't require a god, regardless of whether there are gods.

That's the claim, yes. But I can't accept it on your say-so.
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#60
RE: Why 'Science' tries to separate the beginning from Evolution!
Maybe not, but I'm sure that we can accept it on your say so, which you'll give with no qualms.

Grass grows in my yard. Did god have to specifically do that, or does grass just grow?
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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