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General Science / Creationist Challenge (proving the existence of light)
« on: 07/03/2007 18:35:17 »
This remnds me of a tale I saw, I think it was an end of article filler in Readers Digest.
A bunch of peole are at a dinner party. One person, an army officer I think says "I have never seen any scientific proof of the existence of God"
The Priest retorts that he has never seen any theological proof of the existence of atoms.
In the version I read, this was viewed as "putting the officer back in his place with a with comeback".
As I see it, it seems to show that theology never proves anything.
To be fair, science (other than maths) never proves anything- that's not it's job. All science can ever do is Disprove theories.
If someone asks you questions like "I challenge YOU to PROVE the existance of "LIGHT" to a BLIND man, using ONLY scientific methodology!". you need to explain that they simply have not understood science.
The fact that you could get a blind man to accept that there is such a thing as light is not strictly scientific proof. OK you could get someone to tell him what he's doing as Another Someone sugests, but that is just as valid a proof of mindreading as it is of the existence of light.
A bunch of peole are at a dinner party. One person, an army officer I think says "I have never seen any scientific proof of the existence of God"
The Priest retorts that he has never seen any theological proof of the existence of atoms.
In the version I read, this was viewed as "putting the officer back in his place with a with comeback".
As I see it, it seems to show that theology never proves anything.
To be fair, science (other than maths) never proves anything- that's not it's job. All science can ever do is Disprove theories.
If someone asks you questions like "I challenge YOU to PROVE the existance of "LIGHT" to a BLIND man, using ONLY scientific methodology!". you need to explain that they simply have not understood science.
The fact that you could get a blind man to accept that there is such a thing as light is not strictly scientific proof. OK you could get someone to tell him what he's doing as Another Someone sugests, but that is just as valid a proof of mindreading as it is of the existence of light.