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Quote# 9434

scientists are using faith and ignorance themselves when they decide that a phenomena MUST be a natural instance that they don't know about yet.
That's what evolution is basically...

Britt, The Debating Realm 9 Comments [2/7/2006 12:00:00 AM]
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#13912
Julian


Now if she'd said that in 1799, she might be one of those 'genuine psychics' \"Interesting\" Ian was talking about. As opposed to adding a little Old Testament to her brain and becoming 'genuinely psychOTic'

2/7/2006 5:08:31 AM

#13930
Crosis

No, we actually know quite a bit about evolution.

But science never says that there is no other possible explanation - it says that this one is the best explanation we have. Untestable claims are almost never the best explanation available, simply because they don't really explain anything - they simply substitute an unsolvable mystery for a solvable one. Science sticks with natural explanations because an \"unnatural\" one is next to useless in terms of predictive power.

2/7/2006 6:43:21 AM

#13954
Coffee

A classic case of projection. Faith and ignorance indeed!

2/7/2006 1:55:32 PM

#13977
King Spirula

Britt,
Having produced an incoherent sentence as an explanation of what evolution is, you have demonstrated you know shit about evolution and science. I suggest you move over to \"The Debasing Realm\" where your abilities are better suited.

2/7/2006 6:06:05 PM

#14079
g-21-lto

SIGH

2/8/2006 2:07:50 AM

#14166
Jade

\"...using faith and ignorance...\"

*collapses in a fit of giggles*

Pot, I've *got* to introduce you to kettle. You have so much in common that it's scary...

2/8/2006 3:03:32 PM

#14182
Peachy

Okay so...science must be a natural phenomenon, that we don't know about yet...So, if we don't know about it yet, what exactly are we making science? Ow...there it is, the heebeejeebee migraine.

2/8/2006 3:55:34 PM

#14653
Kettle

Actually, I think you might have misrepresented the pot-kettle phrase. As far as I'd heard it used, the implication is that the pot is accusing the kettle of a characteristic they share. Religion calling science a matter of \"faith and ignorance\" is more like projection.

2/10/2006 4:21:45 PM

#1283106
Quantum Mechanic

Must have been below Ann Coulter in high school biology.

4/27/2011 1:42:22 PM
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