From: Platt Holden (pholden@sc.rr.com)
Date: Tue Apr 19 2005 - 14:36:14 BST
Ian writes:
> 99% of things in the world can not be proven (and 100% cannot be
> disproven) by scientific test methods. Science is based on doubt,
> supported by plausible explanation. Not - "I can't demonstrate that by a
> test - so I'll explain it by divine magic."
We should note that those who subscribe to "plausible explanation" reject
"divine magic" as a matter of faith, substituting faith-based "chance" or
"spontaneity" to explain otherwise inexplicable events, like the
appearance of life from no-life and mind from no-mind. Blindness to and
denial of anything that even hints at the supernatural is built right into
the set of intellectual glasses that static-minded scientists interpret
experience with. Fortunately, there are some scientists who, awed by the
complexity and orderliness of the world, as well as its beauty, plausibly
surmise that a vast intelligence underlies existence. Einstein, for one.
Platt
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