re: #681 jcm

In science the “final answer” is rare. The Coldwater Labs elegant experiment definitively showing deoxyribonucleic acid as the genetic information carrier is the exception not the rule.

“I don’t know” isn’t a weakness, it’s a strength. Religion papers over “I don’t know” with “a miracle happen”. Science is driven by “I don’t know.”

A theory having a number of “I don’t knows” in it doesn’t invalidate a theory.

Gravity is a field rife with “I don’t knows” it still unknown, the actually mechanism that that allows bodies of mass to influence each other over distance. We know it does both through direct and indirect observation, we don’t know how, we have not observed the mechanism of gravity, just the result. Do you similarly dismiss gravity because we don’t know how it works?

No I do not. I actually agree with you 100%

I was merely pointing out how both are based on I don’t know and take different paths for dealing with it. Of the two paths science is the much more rational and functional. But…

“Science has sometimes been said to be opposed to faith, and inconsistent with it. But all science, in fact, rests on a basis of faith, for it assumes the permanence and uniformity of natural laws - a thing which can never be demonstrated.” —Tyron Edwards

And to keep from disrupting HoosierHoops sensibilities and beliefs any more. I’ll leave it at that.