| ??? 09/06/07 19:08 Read: times Msg Score: +1 +1 Good Answer/Helpful |
#144094 - Well said Responding to: ???'s previous message |
Hi Craig,
Religion needs to understand that if they're right bout God, God gave us the ability to understand His creation through science. Not only did He do so, He explicitely said so in scriptures. Of course, it's easy to miss (i.e. rationalize away) if you read scriptures filtered through your own prejudices. Science needs to understand that it shouldn't rule out possible explanations simply because they are unpopular among atheists. If God exists and scientists ignore that possibility, all their gyrations and investigations will never reach the truth because they aren't considering the very possibility that is the truth (hypothetically speaking). I did an experiment once, many years ago, concerning random numbers. It was by no means an exhaustive experiment, but it did demonstrate the idea that no matter what the odds are of flipping a penny heads up ten times, if you've already flipped it heads up nine times the odds of it landing heads the tenth time are still 50:50. It was when Texas first introduced their lottery. I wrote a random number generator to pick 6 numbers for the next lottery drawing. Then I wrote a predictive program to try and pick the most probable numbers based on the historical picks and trying to get the aggregate statistics as close to the ideal case as possible. I also wrote programs to predict the numbers based on a few of the "systems" that were being sold in pamphlet form at the lottery retail locations. The point was that after 8 or 9 months, the random number generator had outperformed all of the predictive models in picking the most winning numbers. Moreover, at no time during the entire experiment did any of the predictive models exceed, or for that matter even match, the performance of the random number generator. So what was the point? The experiment demonstrated empirically that by eliminating any of the possible outcomes, I reduced the probability that I would accurately pick the true outcome. Secularists do the same thing and pretend that it's science becuase they use scientific terms. In my final analysis, I submit that the religious need to know what they believe, and why. And the secularists need to learn to discern what they know from what they merely believe. Until and unless they do, they will both continue pushing each other into their own heresies. Joe |
