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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
In terms of its own internal logic, the theory of intelligent design is perfect. Because, if for God ALL things are possible - what does it matter what some human dates a piece of rock as? What does it matter what he thinks of some fossil?
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I don't doubt that
intelligent design is internally consistent. That's not relevant to its truth. It's not hard to construct an argument that's logically consistent but false.
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Science is the same, it is ruled by an internal logic. A logic which, for example, might say that there is no proof of ghosts when millions of humans have observed them, and yet say there is definite proof of the existence a 45 foot python even though only 500 people have observed it (as an example, you understand)
Science sets its own standards by which to test itself. Science knew that the earth was flat, that black skinned people had smaller brains, that lead could be turned into gold... maybe some of things we know today will prove equally false in the future. Science is limited by the observations that it is capable of making within its limitations and narrow frame of reference.
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What's the point of this argument? Not only was none of your alleged examples determined by
science, in the modern sense of the word, but the fact that science has been wrong about certain things in the past does not mean that it's worth believing in anything; as if to think that science
could be wrong so why not believe this? In fact, in a sense, nothing in science is ever "true" so the idea of holding out hope in something that has been scientifically shown to be false because some scientific findings have been false is stupid.
The difference between science and
religion is that the former is an objective method for determining properties of nature while the latter is an arbitrary doctrinal belief on how to live your life. They are simply not comparable...