Actually, creation/evolution are both non-scientific. Science is based on observable phenomenon, and as far as I know, no one was around to observe the beginning of everything....
[If it snowed last night and I didn't see it happening, I still know it snowed by the evidence left behind in the morning. The evidence for evolution is abundant and obvious. The evidence for creationism is zero.]
You are around to observe the snow, but you cannot say what caused it. You can only say that there is snow on the ground. You assume that it has fallen, and you can throw it in the air to observe it falling, but you cannot state with certainty that it did indeed fall. Simply because you were not there to observe it. It is likely that it did fall, but not certain.
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Your brain works (or not)in the same way, doesn't it? You assume that you wrote that because the memory is in your head, but how do you know it how it got there?
In any aspect of science, despite popular misconception of, among other things, the word "proof", you can never actually do any better than "likely, but not certain".
So close, yet so far. We may not directly observe evolution, but we can certainly see the effects
Okay, turning this around a bit, what evidence do you have that God made the world in seven days, bucko? You weren't around, and the only evidence you have is an old book. Moreover, an old book with two, contradictory stories.
Amazing. Not only does this person deliver the coup de grace to evolution, he (or she) has also destroyed history, geology, archeology, astronomy ... oh, what's the use?
So in a round-about, fucktarded way you are saying that evolution 'likely', but not certainly, happened the way it is explained? Way to deny reality by the way.
Actually, Old Viking, he's destroyed all inductive reasoning, including the authority of the Bible itself.
Allright. I can give a 1% chance that some "snow squad" has been all night long producing and scattering snow in town, for some strange reason. But if you tell me that the snow is there because some winged aliens came and with a snap of a finger made the snow grow, and all that because we all are sinners and I fucked my girlfriend last night without being married...
@Ed
Okay, turning this around a bit, what evidence do you have that God made the world in seven days, bucko? You weren't around, and the only evidence you have is an old book. Moreover, an old book with two, contradictory stories.
How extraordinary...It appears to have been played, but if we didn't see it we couldn't see what was on it.
Read a real book, not your fairy tale.
Actually, because science generally takes place by direct observation and experimentation, he's partially right. We can prove that genetic drift/evolution take place, sure. We have proven it. But we can't prove that species A has evolved from species B five million years ago, because modern humans did not yet exist to observe it.
"but you cannot state with certainty that it did indeed fall. Simply because you were not there to observe it. "
But you cannot state with certainty that god poofed everything into existence. Simply because you were not there to observe it.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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