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Originally Posted by lofhay
FACT AND FANTASY
Humans have developed a system for using their minds to distinguish fact from fantasy. We call it science, and it includes math, physics, chemistry, geology and astronomy. Information gathered by these methods can be demonstrated and replicated, always with the same results, unequivocable. We all know from experience that if we have 6 pennies and get 6 more, we will have 12 pennies. And we can unequivocably predict that, if someone takes 3 pennies away, we will have 9 remaining. We have also learned, first in theory and then in practice, how to calculate the amount of thrust energy must be generated by a rocket engine in order to lift XX tons of machinery into orbit and at what speeds necessary to keep it there. We know these things as facts because we have used math, physics or chemistry to demonstrate them repeatedly.
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There are actually categories of science. The ideas that are being used as examples above are operational science. And in these cases operational science is sound and repeatable.
It is the other areas of science (hypothetical and theoretical) that can not be repeated that then require faith to believe in the same as a belief in religion. While the narrative we are taught is that science has all the answers when you really dig in an examine all the facts you find plenty of holes. For example, the origin of life. In the Miller Urey experiment science recreated the conditions of early earth and formed amino acids. If we take for granted the experiment was sound (there are questions about some of their starting conditions), we still are left with several problems that science then creates a narrative to explain. Even with a pile of amino acids there is no mechanism to join them in a meaningful way that would create a working gene. Given the assumption that over enough time and chance (and ignoring entropy) a gene was assembled, what then reads the gene? You get into a case of irreducible complexity. There is a level of faith in chance required to believe that all the right conditions came together for life to begin.
It then comes down to a personal choice. Do you put your faith in science or God? A measure of faith is required for both.