--- "Fr. Ivo da C. Souza" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If Science cannot convert you, nobody can 'convert' > you to God, because Science has become your >Religion. >
Dear Fr. Ivo You are mistaken. Science does not convert anybody to God or to any particular religion. Science is a method to arrive at rational explanations for natural phenomena based on objective evidence. > >Can you use Karl Popper's falsification criterion for >evolutionary theories? > Yes. Otherwise, they would not be scientific theories. Darwin's theory of evolution can be falsified by any of the following observations: 1. The finding of a 500 million year-old fossilized human skeleton. 2. The finding of no similarity between the DNA of a modern organism and that of its fossilized ancestor. 3. The finding of a human footprint in a fossilized lump of dinosaur dung. > >Can you prove scientific hypotheses? Is it all >evidence? > You can disprove scientific hypotheses with objective evidence. Please see above. Cumulative confirmatory evidence can also validate them to an increasingly higher degree. Regarding the regurgitated issue of self-evidence of metaphysical principles, all I can say is perhaps your metaphysical principles are different from mine. That proves my point that they are neither self-evident nor universally true. Cheers, Santosh
