> -----Original Message----- > From: G [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 27, 2006 12:46 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: Re: What Do Creationists Make Of This? > > > Exactly! > > > > Faith cannot be proven or dis-proven by science. I mean, you can have > > faith > > that if you concentrate you'll be able to fly should you jump out of an > > airplane. But that'd be foolish. > > > > Fossil evidence only proves one thing, that something made those fossils > > appear. It could have been the remains of dead organisms, as I would > > believe. Or it could be God tempting mans faith, as some believe. > > Fossil evidence also proves the age of that organism's remains. Why that > organism existed and died in the first place.....is outside the realm of > science.
Well - to be pedantically correct science doesn't "prove" anything. It indicates, it postulates and examines. The conclusions it comes to are valid in the context of science (the natural, observable world) but not more broadly than that. It doesn't "prove" mostly however because science, as a methodology, is always open to change. Right now the probability that a fossilized organism is ancient is very good: there's lots of evidence (biological, geological, cosmological, etc) that support the idea. However some new evidence might come along tomorrow that forces a change to that idea. Now with a highly supported idea (like the ancient Earth) and information that seeks to change it has to be extraordinarily compelling (and it goes without saying, scientifically valid). The probability that the Earth is less than 7,000 years old is very, very low according to scientific evidence (again, natural, testable, observable, falsifiable evidence) but science will never bring it to zero. And honestly shy would it want to. "Proof" almost by definition implies no further investigation. Most of the fun in science is in the gaps! ;^) Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:201729 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
