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Against All Evidence

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Dr. James Tour is an accomplished scientist and a Christian. This video (https://youtu.be/-Gsa58Rm8Sk) is a talk that he gave to Syracuse University. He wanted to show what science can prove—what humanity can know from science. He could show, through science, that no one has yet proved abiogenesis and molecules-to-humanity evolutionism. He wasn’t able to show, through science, the impossibility of either of these, although they both are implausible He goes through the research that scientists have done on abiogenesis. None of the research had the purpose of showing that abiogenesis happened. None of the research tried to discover the odds of abiogenesis happening. We could say the same of the research on molecules-to-humanity evolutionism. And yet, those who control the message distort the research to claim that both of these stories, abiogenesis and molecules-to-humanity evolutionism, are probable even though they’re unlikely. From there, they imply that these stories happened.
Notice the limit of science. Science can show that scientists haven’t proved these stories. It can calculate the probability, which is low to the point of saying, “Given what we now know, it’s impossible.” It can only tell us what we can observe and test. It can’t give us a way to know everything. We might someday discover a way that would make these stories possible, but it doesn’t appear that anyone will ever be able to show that evolutionism is possible. But if there is any chance at all, and there’s always a chance for everything, science can’t prove that these stories are impossible. Notice that they aren’t even trying to prove that they happened. They just go from saying that no one can prove the stories impossible; therefore, they happened. How insane is that?
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All Scientific “Knowledge” is Tentative

“Science thrives on the conviction that man does not have final knowledge about anything, and that any doctrine, no matter what its credentials, should be subject to inquiry and correction.” ~ L. W. Beck, Philosophic Inquiry
“One of the most common misconceptions concerns the so-called “scientific proofs.” Contrary to popular belief, there is no such thing as a scientific proof. . . . In contrast, all scientific knowledge is tentative and provisional, and nothing is final. There is no such thing as final proved knowledge in science.” ~ Satoshi Kanazawa, Psychology Today, Common misconceptions about science I: “Scientific proof”“In science, ideas can never be completely proved or completely disproved.” ~ Berkely.edu, Understanding Science“You may be reluctant to think that the bungling process of trial and error is tantamount to the scientific method, if only because science is so often shrouded in sophistication and jargon. Yet there is no fundamental difference.” ~ University of Texas at Austin, How Non-scientists use the Scientific Method“The notion that we can find absolute and final truths is naive. If there are any underlying “truths” of nature, our models are just close approximations to them—useful descriptions which “work” by correctly predicting nature’s behavior.” ~ Donald E. Simanek, Lockhaven.edu, The Scientific Method“It can even be shown that all theories, including the best, have the same probability, namely zero.” ~ Karl Popper, Conjectures & Refutations
There seems to be in all this a thoroughgoing epistemological relativism that makes the obtaining of truth impossible; and if scientific procedure cannot obtain truth, it can offer no absolute arguments against theism nor can it say truthfully that ‘the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.’ There is no science to which final appeal can be made; there are only scientists and their various theories. … No scientific or observational proof can be given for the uniformity of nature, and much less can experience demonstrate that ‘the scientific method is the sole gateway to the whole region of knowledge.’ On the contrary, a plausible analysis showed that science was incapable of arriving at any truth whatever. ~ Gordon Clark, A Christian View of Men and Things
False Gods: Science & Intellect

Science Has Limits

Pseudo-science is often used in attempts to discredit the Bible. However, science doesn’t even have the capacity for truth or proof.
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Scientists imply that what they’re calling “evidence” is observation, but they include interpretations as part of the evidence. And they also include presuppositions, assumptions, and the biases of groupthink in those interpretations. They even talk about evidence supporting or countering conclusions rather than proving or disproving conclusions. Support isn’t the same as proof. It’s a much softer word with a vague meaning. As a result, the word “infer” can give the illusion of proving that a conclusion is true or false, but inferring does no such thing.
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