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Thread #131699   Message #2980951
Posted By: Stu
06-Sep-10 - 11:31 AM
Thread Name: BS: The God Delusion 2010
Subject: RE: BS: The God Delusion 2010
"BTW, Sugarfoot Jack, there are plenty of "brave" scientists out there and the new theories or scientific "Theorums" are not going to come from theology."

Absolutely - I personally know a couple of palaeontologists who regularly challenge the orthodoxy and are moving the discipline forward. The greatest scientists are the ones with the greatest imaginations; I was clumsily trying to make a scientific point rather than back up the religious viewpoint. It's just we can't be 100% certain that evolution is the only process at work in the way life develops, or that one day it won't be turned on it's head by scientists who are using techniques we can't even imagine; at the moment it's the best workable theory we have developed.