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Perhaps it is you who is not clear on what science is. Science is, according to Merriam-Webster, knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method.
The scientific method depends on observation and repeatability. Until something is observable and repeatable, it is not proven according to science.
If something cannot be tested, if something cannot be observed, if something cannot be repeated, it is never considered scientific truth. At best, it can be called a hypothesis or a theory.
As evidenced by your post, those who worship at the altar of SCIENCE often insist that the religious are fools since the existence of God cannot be proven by SCIENCE. Then comes the evangelical call for them to renounce their faith and exchange it for...theories that cannot be proven by SCIENCE.
I always enjoy watching y'all preach your gospel against faith, all the while having your own, deep-seated faith in your own idols. It's pretty fascinating.
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The universe is full of unknown, unknowable, maybe even forgotten things. Every thinking man stands in awe before the realization that something exists when nothing should. The mystery of existence is not tantamount to proof of God, however, and most certainly not any particular one from the pantheon of chimeric gods human societies have come up with.
It is even more, I want to say 'foolish', but let's go with 'unhelpful' to try and catch scientists at some mistake or contradiction or unknown, and try to turn that into some argument or proof of God. Your God.
It shows you don't understand how science works, or what science "is", or betrays a lack of faith; in all likelihood, all three at once.
Perhaps it is you who is not clear on what science is. Science is, according to Merriam-Webster, knowledge or a system of knowledge covering general truths or the operation of general laws especially as obtained and tested through scientific method.
The scientific method depends on observation and repeatability. Until something is observable and repeatable, it is not proven according to science.
If something cannot be tested, if something cannot be observed, if something cannot be repeated, it is never considered scientific truth. At best, it can be called a hypothesis or a theory.
As evidenced by your post, those who worship at the altar of SCIENCE often insist that the religious are fools since the existence of God cannot be proven by SCIENCE. Then comes the evangelical call for them to renounce their faith and exchange it for...theories that cannot be proven by SCIENCE.
I always enjoy watching y'all preach your gospel against faith, all the while having your own, deep-seated faith in your own idols. It's pretty fascinating.
I daresay my understanding of science goes a little deeper than a dictionary definition, which is why I put
what science “is” in quotation marks.
I’m talking about science as a
human activity. Its achievements are the product of
human thought, the accumulated result of the hard work of the finest minds of our race. But as such, even then, it is susceptible to all the shortcomings inherent to human beings and processes.
Science does
not claim some kind of platonic or divinely inspired ideals of
absolute, perfect and immutable truths. Science is an attempt by mankind to understand the physical reality we are embedded in, and to do so
in human terms, via concepts that can be grasped and objectively discerned by all human minds.
Science gives us a
conceptual map of the physical world based on the feedback nature provides to our prodding it; it is hoped and we have confidence that our
conceptual map closely corresponds with the underlying physical reality, without losing sight of the fact that “the map is not the territory”. Our scientific ideas are always approximations, mental models of the totality of energy and information which constitutes “reality”.
By way of an illustration, the ancient Greeks (Pythagoreans) conceived of the ‘cosmos’ and celestial objects as perfect spheres circling around a central point and arranged at regular distances (3, 9, 27 distance units and so on). Today, we do not laugh at the ancient Greeks and say their science was wrong and stupid. They did the best they could at the time, with the tools and framework of thought that was available to them.
Rather, we take what we think is of value in their work and refine it and build up on it, such as their idea that the universe is orderly, that the earth is part of the same natural order, and that the universe can be described mathematically (by numbers)etc.
Only the alchemy of faith allows people to transmute the vapors of mysticism into unshakeable facts and
absolute truth.