snakenobi said:
prophecies and predictions are actually the same |
Wrong, prophecies are a subset of predictions so all prophecies are predictions but not all predictions are prophecies.
For example, I predict that Modern Warfare 3 will sell more than 1 million copies. It is an extremely safe prediction but I cannot claim any divine origin for it and thus it is not a prophecy.
And the scientific method does not rely on prophecy as if a person called themselves a scientist and claimed to predict the outcome of an experiment by following a theory not based on earlier observations but thanks to divine inspiration he would soon find himself shunned by other scientist as while believing in god is no problem, letting said belief taint one's scientific work is (if he think he got his idea for his theory thanks to divine inspiration but can back it up with prior experimental results then it is fine as the source if inspiration is irrelevant as long as the theory itself is founded on solid scientific principles).
@Runa216: If you believe in God, you're an idiot. There, I said it.
I disagree with you. While there are plenty of idiots believing in god there are also plenty of intelligent people believing in various gods too. Conversely while there are plenty of intelligent people believing in god there also are idiots that do not believe in it.
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