kanenas@hawaii.rr.com wrote: ,
There is plenty of uncertainty in science. We have *many* theories (not facts!) to explain some of the most basic things in nature and occasionally an experiment gives credence to one over the others, thus creating a new advance and a new dogma in that discipline, with nothing more than a few scant bits of evidence. If that's not uncertainty, please enlighten me as to what is.
A theory is not just some wild idea off the top of someone's head. To be credible, there has to be sufficient evidence to justify it. Science is based on observation and analysis. The model improves as the process continues. Sometimes it goes off on the wrong track, but generally science is self correcting, and so gets closer and closer to reality, That is precisely what religion is not, where "facts" are proclaimed, with little or no evidence to support them, and often despite contradictory evidence. There may be somethings that science can't explain, simply because the evidence is not observable. However, that is simply a lack of information and not "proof" of divine intervention. <Much BS deleted>