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Originally Posted by wildsage  That is the whole point: scientific theories ARE testable or they wouldn't be theories. Theory doesn't mean "hunch" nor does it mean "a story I believe in" nor "an idea that I hope is true in the absence of anything tangible. |
Testable how? How do you test that the big bang happened? How do you test that black holes exist? What sort of tangibles are used to test these things? Numbers aren’t tangible.
Look, I’m not saying theories are hunches, but devoid of the numbers that explain certain things you are left with nothing more than a hunch. Certain things are not provable in sort of tangible way.
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Originally Posted by wildsage We're back to saying that religious beliefs should be taught in theology classes, especially if they all get equal time; specific religious beliefs belong in the institution that harbors the community of those believers; science is taught in school because the purpose of school is to engender knowledge. |
Are you implying there is no knowledge to be gained by teaching religion? Religion is an integral part of our culture. To assume there is nothing to be gained by teaching it in our schools undermines the important role religion has played on global society since the dawning of man. You see, belief in a God has been around a lot longer than science. I would like for our scientific minds to puts some synapses together to discover how it is religion has been such a important part of the human experience over thousands of years. For something that is simply conjured up in dreaming minds, it sure seems to like to hang around.