Science & religion is about faith.
Light supposedly travels at 300000 km/s, that's never been observed in 1 direction. In fact it takes faith to believe that light always behaves the same way regardless of circumstance.
Same with evolution, never been observed/repeated in a lab
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So, let’s assume for a moment that Science is indeed based on faith like religion is (it really is NOT, btw). Does that mean that science is good and to be blindly obeyed like religion is, or is religion bad and to be scrutinized like science is? Make sense, damnnit!
If science is a religion, it certainly seems to be the one that is actually true, or at least the right path of revelation, given how it is the one whose miracles and oracles actually work…
Well, Science - via NASA/JPL - has today observed that their Ingenuity drone: part of the Perseverance rover on Mars is proving that their Success levels are OVER 9000. No ‘Faith' required.
The light picked up by the CCD chips in that rover's cameras to show said drone working fine is like the systems in Perseverance. Oh, and Richard Lenski's E-coli experiments which conclusively prove Evolution.
We're sure that with enough ‘Perseverance' you'll be able to prove we Atheists otherwise. [/Doug Piranha-levels of sarcasm]
But not today.
Already on 1675, Ole Rømer and Christiaan Huygens were able to use the Jupiterian moons to calculate the speed of light. Other, more precise methods were then devised afterwards to improve their figures.
As for evolution, the first breed registries were established in the 18th century, and selective breeding already occured in the Classical Era.
Light supposedly travels at 300000 km/s, that's never been observed in 1 direction.
The way you state this factoid makes it very clear that you are completely ignorant of ALL surrounding context: that c is not merely how fast light is but a natural constant that fundamentally describes the speed at which information can travel, that it is impossible to measure the one-way speed of light due to needing a convention on synchronising the clocks and that the convention that has been adopted makes this distinction moot… all of which is literally in the introduction paragraphs of Wikipedia’s article on the speed of light. Doubtlessly mindlessly handed down through many iterations from Jason Lisle or one of the other professional liars.
In fact it takes faith to believe that light always behaves the same way regardless of circumstance.
Are you talking about the speed of light being invarian regardless of frame of reference or the laws of nature being consistent and immutable? Who am I kidding, you likely don’t even get this distinction. In either case, we have ample empirical support from many lines of evidence. Indeed, we actually have been looking for anything that could hint that the laws of nature have been different in the past, but we have found nothing and can say with certainty that any changes that could possibly have happened must have been extremely small indeed - most assuredly not the extreme many-many-magnitudes changes that would be necessary to fit our observable universe into a Young Earth Creationist timeframe.
"Science & religion is about faith. Light supposedly travels at 300000 km/s"
Then how us it everyone has THAT number?
But everyone in the industry buys the experimentsl results of light speed, and moves on from there to whatever their discipline needs.
Imagine the chaos if science was as varied as faith. There would not be 3 vaccines, there'd be thousands...all about as effective as praying away a fever.
Oh dear - a troglodyte attempts to teach others..
A few seconds of googling would show you that the speed of light was first calculated in the seventeenth century sing observations of Jupiter’s moon Io and can be more accurately demonstrated in a modern laboratory using lasers. Evolution is likewise based on observation of fossils, extant species distribution and DNA sequencing. It can be seen to happen in real time in the case of rapidly reproducing organisms like bacteria. These are not matters of faith.
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So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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