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To: Brumar89 who wrote (284)	9/16/2006 7:35:26 PM
From: skinowski	Read Replies (1) of 17114

Good discussion... I'd like to comment on a couple of things. The Scientific method is a body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge, as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge. It is based on observable, empirical, measurable evidence, and subject to laws of reasoning. en.wikipedia.org This is the basic definition from the Wikipedia, and I think, a good one. This is the method which made it possible to acquire the "clean", reproducible knowledge - which made it possible to build our civilization. However, not all phenomena can be subject to the scientific method. Many are not - to give just one example, Psychoanalysis. To say that anything which was not investigated in accordance with the scientific method is "not true" is... incorrect. About evolution - there is no doubt in my mind that it occurred. Open any text on Embryology - and you'll see how the fetus evolves - both structurally and functionally - from one cell to a primitive organism and all the way to the "finished product". The "reality" of evolution is not the question - the real question is whether or not there also exists - and plays a part - a supernatural presence, a Deity? I can't see how the scientific method can help us answer this question. Neither will the acknowledgment or denial of evolution. Could never understand why so many people imagine that the phenomenon of evolution - and God - must be in any way incompatible. If there is God, then God invented evolution. Maybe Evolution is God's "method" of Creation? Why not? Who are we to tell God how to do His business.

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