Re: does science have nothing to say even when it cant offer a definite conclusion?
- From: snex <xens@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2007 12:42:35 -0700
On Jul 6, 2:27 pm, John Bode <john_b...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Jul 6, 12:48 pm, snex <x...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
from another thread:
Well I'll give you a chance to demonstrate, and I'll pick a subject that
iss far more generally accepted to be alive at the time. Herod Antipas,
on what we would call the 23rd of June, had what for the first meal of
the day? Of course that could be a trick question and he did not eat
that day, but then again you seem to be claiming that sciene can tell me
that anywhay.
ok lets play your game. science cannot determine what he did eat that
day (or if he did eat anything). but does that mean i can say he ate
the lost continent of atlantis, and that is why we no longer see it?
what if i call that my religious faith? does that make it more
plausible?
if 1.5 billion people start going around saying that herod antipas ate
the lost continent of atlantis on the 23rd of june, and some of them
happen to be scientists, does that make the belief about atlantis more
plausible?
the problem you seem to be having is thinking that if science cannot
form a definite conclusion, all logically coherent conclusions are
therefore all equally likely, and anybody can say whatever they want
about the matter. the fact that science cannot form a definite
conclusion does NOT mean that science has absolutely no commentary on
a matter.
In short: we may not know what the answer is, but we often have a
pretty good idea what the answer *isn't*.
tell it to the people who insist that 2000 years ago a dead man god up
and walked around, then floated away into the clouds.
they think this assertion is somehow consistent with science.
.
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