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**IvJlNwum** · 07-07-2011, 10:52 PM

Humber, this is the difference between someone who believes in "Intelligent" Design and an actual practitioner of the scientific method.

Discovery of dinosaur fossils -

ID: How can I interpret this so it fits in with the timelines and stories outlined in the Bible?

Scientist: Are these reptiles or birds? Around what year did these fossils live? What caused them to die? What sort of habitat did they live in?

To spell out the difference, Humber, you start off with a conclusion and then try to twist things you discover to fit into your belief system.

A scientist, on the other hand, will start with a question, come up with a way to explain the question or answer it, test this answer in ways that anyone else could replicate, and then put his findings up for review by anyone interested.

An intelligent man continues to ask questions. There is a reason why there are still only a handful of scientific laws in existence - and even some of those are being called into question.

God may very well exist. There is no way to ever formally conclude that God does not. There will always be a way to state that a God exists because the concept of God is based off of mysticism, or something that "just is". There is no way of having a productive debate between a person who believes in logical conclusion based on evidence and testable theory and a person who believes in a conclusion for no other reasons than he has no better explanation and because he has an emotional desire for that conclusion to be true.

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IvJlNwum Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 507 Senior Member	Humber, this is the difference between someone who believes in "Intelligent" Design and an actual practitioner of the scientific method. Discovery of dinosaur fossils - ID: How can I interpret this so it fits in with the timelines and stories outlined in the Bible? Scientist: Are these reptiles or birds? Around what year did these fossils live? What caused them to die? What sort of habitat did they live in? To spell out the difference, Humber, you start off with a conclusion and then try to twist things you discover to fit into your belief system. A scientist, on the other hand, will start with a question, come up with a way to explain the question or answer it, test this answer in ways that anyone else could replicate, and then put his findings up for review by anyone interested. An intelligent man continues to ask questions. There is a reason why there are still only a handful of scientific laws in existence - and even some of those are being called into question. God may very well exist. There is no way to ever formally conclude that God does not. There will always be a way to state that a God exists because the concept of God is based off of mysticism, or something that "just is". There is no way of having a productive debate between a person who believes in logical conclusion based on evidence and testable theory and a person who believes in a conclusion for no other reasons than he has no better explanation and because he has an emotional desire for that conclusion to be true.
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