Posted by Bob on 11/20/2007, 6:15 am
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Excerpted from
http://media.wiley.com/product_data/excerpt/69/07879946/0787994669.pdf
Most fundamentally, striving for a “scientific” proof of the existence (or nonexistence) of God is a meaningless ambition, because in fact science just doesn’t do “proofs” the way that mathematics or philosophy does.
No assumption, assertion, or conclusion
of science is ever held to be unassailable.
Science in itself never deals with certainties.
Rather, we scientists are satisfied if we can come up with a theory that’s merely
consistent with what we think we’ve observed up to now.
Even long-held axioms like conservation of mass (“no matter is ever created or destroyed”) have been found to be incomplete in the light of new experimental evidence.
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