Is Science Tentative or Settled?

[Mercer (John Mercer)]

@anon46279830

Regarding events we can repeat real-time in the lab I think some science is, in practical rather than philosophical terms, settled. As regards to speaking about events in the distant past or things that we cannot repeat on demand in real-time I would say the more “settled” it is the less it is science and the more it becomes dogma.

I think that it’s a matter of the mass of evidence, not whether something happened in the distant past.

Do you realize that the predictions we expect of scientific hypotheses are about things we don’t know, and not about things that must happen in the future?

[gbrooks9 (GeorgeB)]

@anon46279830

As regards to speaking about events in the distant past or things that we cannot repeat on demand in real-time I would say the more “settled” it is the less it is science and the more it becomes dogma.

@anon46279830

The first Christians to modify their views of Genesis 1 were the geologists… and I don’t know a more impressive corpus of evidence than what the Geologists have “dug up” (pun intended!).

Physics… chemistry … this isn’t fuzzy-wuzzy biology and capriciously folding protein molecules…
Karl Giberson started off a totally committed Creationist in the mold of Henry Morris! Karl, a true northerner (from Canada), even got a degree from the same school as Henry Morris.

There was just one snag: Karl got his advanced degree in Physics. And even though he taught physics in an evangelical college … the science he was teaching was teaching him. And that’s how he ended up being one of the founders of BioLogos! Maybe it was best that BioLogos didn’t kick off until 2007, a year after Karl’s original inspiration, Henry Morris, had died at age 87?

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Henry M. Morris