Why is the scientific method valid when discussing the theories necessary to make your computer work but not when discussing evolution?
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because we were not created by a scientist.
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Huh? The theory of evolution is a perfect example of the scientific method, am I missing something?
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Scientific computer theory is based on facts about computers, while evolution happened in the past so we do not really know. I do support the theory of evolution but it is admittedly a theory. Although it makes perfect logical sense and we can use it today eg in selective breeding something else what we are missing could be the case which causes evolution to make sense aswell. I am not saying this is the case but its possible. The difference here is with one thing we are talking about a human invention and the other thing we refer to nature. (Although I am pretty sure the theory of evolution is correct and it does provide a scientific template which biologists have used for a while).
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Luddites don't need things to make sense.
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The “scientific method” is as follows: Observe what happens; based on those observations, form a theory as to what may be true; test the theory by further observations and by experiments; and watch to see if the predictions based on the theory are fulfilled. Is this the method followed by those who believe in and teach evolution? Astronomer Robert Jastrow says: “To their chagrin [scientists] have no clear-cut answer, because chemists have never succeeded in reproducing nature’s experiments on the creation of life out of nonliving matter. Scientists do not know how that happened.”—The Enchanted Loom: Mind in the Universe (New York, 1981), p. 19. Are we able to Observe what happens with the operarions of a computer, form a theory as to what may be true; test the theory by further observations and by experiments; and watch to see if the predictions based on the theory are fulfilled? If so, then you have your answer.
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