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Why can't scientists understand that during creation God made everything fully mature (e.g. Adam, fish) hence an ancient Earth?
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The short answer to your question is that Science deals only with statements that are falsifiable. Science takes nothing for granted (kind of, I'll get back to that). Anytime you want to make a claim that something is "scientific", then there must be ways to try to substantiate that claim. You can run hundreds of experiments to try to support your hypothesis, but if one experiment makes your hypothesis false, then your claim is obviously not true. More often than not, the hypothesis needs to be adjusted in some way.
By stating, "God did it!" for anything, you remove the ability to falsify that claim and therefore that claim is not within the realm of science. Essentially, there is no hypothesis that requires testing because you are taking the statement for granted.
The kind of things that scientists "take for granted" is gravity. These are referred to as Laws of Science. There is no inherent reason that gravity should exist as a phenomenon, it just does, and if you want to say "God does it", then so be it. On the other hand, science does attempt to describe the effects of these laws. Such descriptions are called theories.
I'm sure we've all heard of the Theory of Gravity. For a couple of centuries, scientists used Newtonian Mechanics to describe how gravity works. This theory was good, but not perfect. Einstein came along and developed Relativity. It is important to note that there was nothing wrong with what Newton had discovered, merely, his description did not describe all the effects that gravity had to offer. Relativity is not the last word on gravity either. Scientists know that the current theory of gravity is incomplete, it is just the best description science currently has to offer. As it is, Relativity is a theory most people have trouble understanding.
Someday, someone will come along and make a grander theory that will include Relativity, and still describe Gravity even better. I believe String Theory and M-Theory are two candidates, but that is going beyond the scope of my own knowledge.
In a nutshell, a theory, as used in science, is a way of describing facts as we know them. Scientists know that variations occur within the animal kingdom over large amounts of time. This appears to be a natural law like gravity. Again, if you want to say that "God does it", that's out of the realm of science. As things stand, the Theory of Evolution is our best scientific description of that law.
By stating, "God did it!" for anything, you remove the ability to falsify that claim and therefore that claim is not within the realm of science. Essentially, there is no hypothesis that requires testing because you are taking the statement for granted.
The kind of things that scientists "take for granted" is gravity. These are referred to as Laws of Science. There is no inherent reason that gravity should exist as a phenomenon, it just does, and if you want to say "God does it", then so be it. On the other hand, science does attempt to describe the effects of these laws. Such descriptions are called theories.
I'm sure we've all heard of the Theory of Gravity. For a couple of centuries, scientists used Newtonian Mechanics to describe how gravity works. This theory was good, but not perfect. Einstein came along and developed Relativity. It is important to note that there was nothing wrong with what Newton had discovered, merely, his description did not describe all the effects that gravity had to offer. Relativity is not the last word on gravity either. Scientists know that the current theory of gravity is incomplete, it is just the best description science currently has to offer. As it is, Relativity is a theory most people have trouble understanding.
Someday, someone will come along and make a grander theory that will include Relativity, and still describe Gravity even better. I believe String Theory and M-Theory are two candidates, but that is going beyond the scope of my own knowledge.
In a nutshell, a theory, as used in science, is a way of describing facts as we know them. Scientists know that variations occur within the animal kingdom over large amounts of time. This appears to be a natural law like gravity. Again, if you want to say that "God does it", that's out of the realm of science. As things stand, the Theory of Evolution is our best scientific description of that law.
Very well stated.
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While that could be an interesting theory, the reasons scientist don't believe that is because there is no proof.
Science isn't a religion, so scientist look to prove or disprove theories. where as theologists believe that things are so, and that how they choose to live their life
Science isn't a religion, so scientist look to prove or disprove theories. where as theologists believe that things are so, and that how they choose to live their life
First there was nothing, then it exploded. Yeah, I can see where that's a verifiable fact. Scientists choose what to believe constantly, it's unavoidable. I was taught that the scientific method was based on observation and controlled experiments with results that can be repeated, you know, science, not all this gobbldy goop about single cells crawling out of the ocean and developing lungs 14 billion years ago.
Scientist's don't understand that statement because its not accepted as how a living thing is made, currently evolution is the primary theory that says how living things came to be, from simple single-cell organisms (bacteria), to complex multi-cell organisms (fish).
Also the scientific method includes "recording" of events, and at the moment we do not see God making mature living things, but we do see reproduction and environmental adaptation.
Also the scientific method includes "recording" of events, and at the moment we do not see God making mature living things, but we do see reproduction and environmental adaptation.
So somewhere we have a monkey that is in the process of evolving into a man? A half man half ape carnival side show?
@keepontryin If we have the resources and power to mimic the environment in which our ancestors evolved in, then yes we can see a half man half ape, but you will probably be dead by the time there are any results.
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