On Tue, 12 Jan 2021 04:50:12 +0000, in ,
The Natural Philosopher wrote:
>In the end conventional science versus creation science is about what
>you find the most inconceivable - a Big Bang N billion years ago in
>which a broken symmetry started time in the exact way it appears, or a
>supernal Being who dreamed it all up a few thousand years ago and faked
>it to *look like* it was N billion years old. Or whatever the current
>figure is.
>
>And those are not the only narratives that exist. And they are in the
>end metaphysical. They can't be proved to be correct, only more or less
>useful, in any given context.
>
>Its not turtles all the way down, it's *models*.
Except... science has something much more demonstrable than "belief"
to hang its hat on.
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Jim H
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