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Thread #147391   Message #3439812
Posted By: GUEST,Lighter
21-Nov-12 - 09:44 AM
Thread Name: BS: Alternative to Science??
Subject: RE: BS: Alternative to Science??
Snail, you mean it isn't *possible* that Evolution by Natural Selection, whose principles are discoverable, could *not* have been invented and guided by an Ultrabeing whose existence is beyond the reach of science?

It may be a wacky idea, but that doesn't make it inconsistent with Evolution by NS. (And I mean actual E by NS as it occurs, not just Darwin's take on it.)

A more basic question is whether *anything* could, in theory, be beyond the reach of science. How about the quality of life on planets in parallel dimensions, if any? How about what image of which Hollywood starlet I have in my mind right now?

The answer is there's no way to know. I can't even be sure I'm not a brain in a vat in the 39th century. Can you?