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Originally Posted by Willravel
It's independently verifiable, Seaver. That's the difference. The singularity isn't just something that has to be taken on faith, you can educate yourself on verifiable science and then use what you've learned to demonstrate the particular hypothesis is the best explanation yourself. Science is about objective verification, which separates it from dogma.
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Exactly, and that's the difference. Sure, I don't know from personal experience that Mars has two moons, I just read about it in a science book. But I could certainly go buy myself a telescope and look at the friggin' thing, and then I would know from personal experience that Mars does in fact have two moons.
I could buy all the telescopes I want but I'd never be able to see a virgin give birth to the son of a deity who gets killed by peasants and then rises from the grave and floats to the sky.