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Originally Posted by evman150
This is a brutal false equivalence.
Reminds me of some "scientist" in "the secret" video (you know - rhonda byrne BS) who says something along the lines of "do you know how electricity works? I sure don't, therefore nobody does - therefore it's the secret!"
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Not sure how you see it that way. Yes, there is better evidence and logical reasoning behind scientific explanations of how the universe works, but it is still a little thin on data at times to verify some of these theories. There is extrapolation based on data, but that makes whatever is concluded rather tenuous, and things will most likely change in the future as we get more data. That's just how science works, we use the best information at the time. This is not in reference to evolution or any well established scientific theory/principle, but rather the newer more revolutionary scientific explanations.
Remember when scientists were saying that creating the Higgs Boson particle could possibly create a black hole? Well, that turned out to be wrong. That's the thing, science is often wrong, but they're ok with being wrong from time to time. I've yet to meet a religious person that is ok with having wrong ideas based on religion.
Whether you like it or not, physicists are still unravelling many of the secrets of the universe and definitely do NOT have all the answers yet. I would rather have the logical and limited explanations science has at times and be comfortable with the unknown, rather than have the somewhat silly notion that god is in heaven waiting for you in the afterlife.
And I really have no idea what that quote from "The Secret" has to do with my thoughts or argument.
