On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:08:47PM -0600, Ross Werner wrote: > To me, that's at least as harmful, if not more, as refusing to "accept any > spiritual evidence" in such matters.
No. Whose chapter and verse indeed! Revealed truth is absolute; that extends to scripture. Scientific knowledge is nothing more than an aggregation of models, some of which are better models of reality than others, but ALL are incomplete and/or inconsistent with reality. If I hold a rock in my hand and let go of it, what will happen? No one can say what will happen, not through science, for science can only _predict_ what will happen. For 78 years, general relativity made predictions about nature, some inane and counterintuitive others fantastic, nevertheless, ALL predictions made by the theory evaluable by experiment within its extent of meaningful application were found to be correct up unto the utter limit of experimental error. Only two (or three?) years ago has something been discovered which challencges the accuracy of the theory. We let go of the rock and it didn't fall. The point is that science is not reality and can never touch reality. Because a great scientist has said or written or reasoned it doesn't make it true, but at most a useful model which will most likely be found unuseful. We cannot even say when that will happen. Justin ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
