The fight over Darwin - Teaching evolution in schools

[Khuutra]

Rath said:

appolose said:

You weren't arguing in favor of evolution, you were arguing that it was science, which does not, one way or the other, contradict the Bible.

I gave the possibility the divine as being the reason for two contradictory observations; logic is not broken. Modifying or discarding one of them would contradict the assumption science makes (that the empirical method is a trustworthy method).  You're left with either discarding science or accepting the supernatural.

Can you give me an example of such a contradictory observation (doesn't have to be a real example - just one which doesn't break the laws of logic and would cause either discarding science or accepting the supernatural).

You are asking a very, very, very difficult question here, one that appolose isn't going to be able to answer in a satisfying way.

One could say "A fire that burns in a vacuum and consumers no fuel but never goes out" as somthing that breaks every known law of physics, but that dos not deestroy physics, it just changes our understanding of physics. Our understanding of the world would change in order to absorb this new, strangee phenomenon.