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Michchamp
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Thought I would give you a semi-serious response too. That is because he and you believe the evidence that our man-made "most advanced equipment" has produced. Funny, though, that evidence could also be used to undermine the entire process of scientific inquiry.
Look at global warming! <gets ready to duck> :*)
so your point is that religion is okay/valid because while scientific inquiry can undermine it (which of course doesn't stop religious people from believing in their bullshit), scientific inquiry can also undermine earlier scientific inquiry?
well, yeah. that's kinda the whole point of science. hypotheses and data can be proven false or invalidated by new or more accurate data. the whole point of science is the method though, not the outcome.
the tenets of organized religions were proven scientifically false hundreds of years ago... once we inveted telescopes, and microscopes and discovered dinosaur bones & carbon dating. the boundaries of what the Church asserted as "Truth" (Heliocentric universe, 6,000 year old Earth, magic, miraculous occurences, etc) conveniently retreated past the boundary of what science couldn't prove at that moment. These days the Church is more or less only left with things that are impossible to prove false.