judge pen has it right, science is as much faith as any religion. At one time Copernicus knew how the planets rotated around the sun. Before him someone knew that the world was flat. Darwin knew that evolution must exist...
Not really true at all. Someone before Copernicus OBSERVED that the world was flat. Copernicus made more careful and detailed observations of the same data, and came to the conclusion that the planets orbit the sun. Darwin made careful observations of the data available to him (most notably the differently adapted fauna in the Galapogos (sp?) Islands and concluded that animals descended from common ancestors will adapt to their environment. Since then, many more people have observed this phenomenon in all life.
Careful observation IS science. It has nothing to do with faith.
Last edited by Chang Style Novice; 07-08-2003 at 12:03 PM.
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