james bond
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First, as others have pointed out, this is not an atheistic system, but rather a scientific system. There are many scientists who also believe in a deity.
None of the list you have given (singularity, invisible particles, quantum mechanics, the Big Bang, abiogenesis, theory of evolution, dark energy, dark matter) is in any way similar to the proposal that there is a God. Some are well-tested scientific principles (quantum mechanics, the theory of evolution), some are broad ranging explanations for the observations we have made (the Big Bang), some are speculative but have observations to back them up (dark matter, dark energy), some are vague (invisible particles) and some are just plain misunderstandings (singularity). But NONE of them is a God-substitute. ALL are our attempts to understand the universe around us.
Yes. They have created an understanding of the universe around us. As I pointed out, some on your list are extensively tested. Others need new equipment or new techniques to test more thoroughly. The 'invisible particles' have been discovered and have broadened our understanding of matter. We have found gravitational waves. We understand much more now about the chemistry of life and what had to have taken place when life first formed.
If you think any of them said definitively that they *will* find microbes somewhere else, then the problem is in your understanding of what they said, NOT in what they said. Because NOBODY has made that claim. They claim that the *conditions* are better than expected for such.
Again, this has nothing at all to do with atheism and everything to do with how science is done. It takes time, energy, and extensive testing. It requires making hypotheses and seeing which ones hold up to scrutiny. It laso has to deal with a public ignorant of the process expecting immediate answers when it may well take decades for full answers.
Really? Please let us know about these testing procedures! Which falsifiable hyppppp have been brought to the table? Please show us one! Please show exactly where the current scientific models do not work and propose one that is better.
Please present this evidence. All I have ever seen from the creationist camp is ignorant attacks on what other people have done. When the mistakes are pointed out to them, they ignore the instruction and repeat their myths. Ultimately, we simply have to start assuming that creationists are lying and attempting to play to the crowd rather than to find the truth.
I just met someone who I now realize is on the list for one of the smartest people in the world. He's a professor who studies dark energy as one of his areas. I think he's a physicist and I can't remember his other area right now. He sounds liberal, but I think he's Christian. Maybe I'll ask him to explain his views one day instead of hitting him with I disagree because of blah, blah, blah ha ha.
Anyway, science is not what you describe as a "scientific system." That sounds like the liberal internet atheist BS of "science is science" or what Degrass said,
Science is about the search for truth and has always been about disagreements. There are no proofs. For example, the ones who have promoted string theory have fallen by the wayside. What's important is some of the findings led to M-theory. Is M-theory the final truth? Well, no. It can be replaced by something else, but much of the mathematics backs it up so physicists consider it sexy. Just like when string theory was in its hey day years ago. Was it the 90s? We're getting to over twenty-five years already. (I just looked it up, it was the second superstring theory in the 90s which I am addressing.)
I'm saying all of it -- singularity, invisible particles, quantum mechanics, the Big Bang, abiogenesis, theory of evolution, dark energy, dark matter -- are replacements for God by the atheist scientists. It may not be every single point in detail, but overall it is. Else, we would not have have creation vs evolution. Am I saying that they're wrong? No, I didn't say that. I'm just interpreting what Voltaire said that way. Voltaire was a strange cat anyway.
So they created understanding? I think you mean knowledge. Isn't knowledge immaterial? That's one point for me. I'm talking about the material which today's science seems to be interested in and what they only count. It's the testable and falsifiable thinking. Here's what I mean. That may be part of today's scientific method, but it should not be science. Being testable and falsifiable is only one goal. I think Edward Witten was right in saying we do not use testable and falsifiable science to explore our universe. For example, he said we do not want to explore Mars in order to falsify Mars. People just do not think like that. We should go to Mars to enhance our knowledge. I wouldn't advocate sending people to Mars to colonize (rather colonize the moon or outer space). Experiments are expected to fail. Theories are made to fall by the wayside.
I'm not criticizing the founding of gravitational waves and the building of the LHC. To the contrary, I applauded it when it happened. I'm for it. I think you misunderstand. What I am applying it to isn't science but philosophy in regards to what Voltaire said. Was it done to create a Creator or a substitute for one? No. But it helps serve the purpose doesn't it? I am equating it to cosmology or referring to the cosmological aspects of this science. Wouldn't you say that it would fit what Voltaire said?
LMAO on the microbes. It was NASA's chief scientist who said it -- NASA Chief Scientist Ellen Stofan Predicts We'll Find Signs Of Alien Life Within 10 Years | The Huffington Post . I have even seen a NASA video (now taken down due to scientific criticism) of a tiny fish scamper across a screen to show life on Mars. So, if they succeed and find microbes, then it has no effect on creation vs evolution? Is that what you're saying? Or are you just covering their arses saying ahead of time that if they fail, then it has no effect on creation vs evolution? What I am saying is if they fail, then it's another point for the creationists. If it's a point for evolutionists, then it will be used to denigrate God. It's not the end of our disagreements. Like I said, that's science.
If you're a scientist, then I think you're hung up on testable and falsifiable. If I were one in hard sciences, I wouldn't have that as my main focus in my thinking. By now, you should understand what my thinking would be.
Aside from science I showed against evolution, the science for creation is:
Scientific Evidence for God
Feedback: The Most Compelling Scientific Evidence of Young Earth?
Electrical design in the human body
Six Evidences of a Young Earth
https://christiananswers.net/q-aig/aig-c038.html
Genetic Variability by Design
https://christiananswers.net/q-eden/edn-t008.html
I think one of the biggest obstacles for non-theists to creation science is the thinking that it isn't science and that science does not back the Bible. That the Bible defies common sense. However, what we have found through science is that truth is stranger than fiction.