On Mon, 10 Jun 2013 12:47:22 -0700
Nathan England <[email protected]> wrote:

> Science is in large part unproven theories,

Um, yeah. And this is perfectly reasonable. The job of science is not
to prove theories, but to disprove them.

> just as the Bible is 
> only a book with little physical evidence it is right.

I have no problem with someone *believing* the bible. I do have a
problem with trying to use it in scientific endeavors because most
people who do so use it in the informal fallacy called the argument
from authority.

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