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Thread #155384   Message #3661289
Posted By: Steve Shaw
17-Sep-14 - 02:44 PM
Thread Name: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
Subject: RE: BS: Special thread on Evolution & religion
steve, whatever science has discovered, you cannot know that it will explain what it has'nt as yet. you just believe that based on your a priori assumption that there are only naturalistic explanations to be found.

Oh yes I can. Science is the only way that anything that has already been explained has been explained. That has been the trajectory of the human race since, er, Adam were a lad. I do not believe, but I am certain, that science will go on explaining things. I am also pretty certain that there will be things that will be unexplained even as the last human dies out. And I have made no assumptions, a priori or otherwise. In all of human endeavour, not one phenomenon has ever been explained, with evidence, by non-naturalistic means. To suggest that, aha, currently unexplained things may yield to non-naturalistic explanations makes you no more more than a fraudster suffering from severe sour grapes just because it's never happened.