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Torbjorn_Larsson  ·  4191 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Religion and Our Evolution

"Science is AWESOME - but it is also flawed. Not necessarily the process, but we make mistakes in our assumptions all the time. The prevailing winds of science change constantly."

Your hypothesis on science is flawed, and rejected by observation. As Sean Carroll notes, "The Laws Underlying The Physics of Everyday Life Are Completely Understood". [ http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2010/09/23/the-laws.../ ] Science, while revisable, converges on robust facts and theories.

It is too late to imagine "mistakes", and the gaps are gone too. We now know that the universe _must_ be a result of a spontaneous process, that independent of that there _can't_ be any soul et cetera. And as for the deist cop out, the cosmology analysis now stands between multiverses, so physics is local, or naturalness, so physics is forced. Eg magic can't slip in there either.

Game over!

Of course, it will take magic believers decades to get to grips with the facts. For example, officially the catholic church has no magic agency at the moment, because their latest bid was that it wouldn't have to create a universe but it absolutely had to create a unique human breeder pair. So that agency was found false 2011 from sequencing the neanderthal nuclear genome. And "remarkably", that church hasn't acknowledged their problem with truth yet. As per the usual scam practice.