Science - how Accurate?

Alceste said:

That reminds me of a friend of mine who was out camping with some friends and one of them left a used menstrual sponge out in the woods. Somebody else found it and brought it back to the fireside and said "Guys! Guys! A forest sponge! I found a forest sponge!" and passed it around. Everyone marveled at the wondrous and inexplicable discovery of forest-dwelling sponges, until it got to the woman who'd left it. She chucked it into the fire, as I imagine anybody would in her shoes. The guy who found it shrieked "You killed the forest sponge! Murderer!"

Just goes to show you we are very imaginative monkeys, especially when confronted with what seems at first glance - and in ignorance of the facts - to be inexplicable. As with forest-dwelling sponges, so with creationist misinformation on the internet.

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Alceste said:

That reminds me of a friend of mine who was out camping with some friends and one of them left a used menstrual sponge out in the woods. Somebody else found it and brought it back to the fireside and said "Guys! Guys! A forest sponge! I found a forest sponge!" and passed it around. Everyone marveled at the wondrous and inexplicable discovery of forest-dwelling sponges, until it got to the woman who'd left it. She chucked it into the fire, as I imagine anybody would in her shoes. The guy who found it shrieked "You killed the forest sponge! Murderer!"

Just goes to show you we are very imaginative monkeys, especially when confronted with what seems at first glance - and in ignorance of the facts - to be inexplicable. As with forest-dwelling sponges, so with creationist misinformation on the internet.

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themadhair said:

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themadhair said:

To make a claim takes ten seconds.
To debunk a claim can take ten minutes if the research has been done.
To debunk a claim can take ten days if the research has not been done and access to the find is allowed.
To debunk a claim can take ten weeks if no access to the find is allowed.
To make a claim, test it and produce credible scientific evidence to support it takes ten years.

Think about it.

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Free4all said:

It's amazing sometimes - Just throw something into the mix and some have a conniption fit.

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Free4all said:

Well ---- give me a couple links so I can better inform myself.

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s2a said:

Just curious...of what level of "accuracy" do you seek?

Do refrigerators work near you? Microwave ovens? Cell phones?

Any modern medicines that seem "miraculous" in their effects and outcomes?

Just asking, but what levels of "accuracy" borne of "science" seem lessened by spurious and anecdotal claims of faith?

just for the record, and in brief..."science" relies upon claims put forth that are testable, repeatable, reproducible, and do not rely upon anecdotes of deus ex machina explanations alone. Sure, maybe "god did it", but is that source or result even testable? Maybe miracles "happen", but is that ever a phenomena that "science" can test or validate?

Please bear in mind that "science" is not about "disproving" faith-based religious claims. The dreaded evil of "science" is constrained to whatever evidence is discovered, available, and testable within rigorous experimentation to eventually be demonstrably and repetitively revealed to be consistently repeated or pure happenstance.

If you wish to label such outcomes as "faith", go ahead. Science can only grapple with reality, for super naturalism IS NOT "science". THAT, is religion.

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