Method of Madness: post-hoc reasoning and confirmation bias.

Actually, he is approaching the issue very scientifically. Everytime a scientist comes up with a hypothesis or theory, he is suppose to try his best to disprove his own creation. If indeed there are faith based miracles happening, I don't see any reason why they shouldn't be subject to independent verification.Your problem is you automatically assume anything that supports your religious beliefs to be true without first questioning it. So what if Dr. Scott converted a lot of people? The Nazis converted a lot of people, too, but that doesn't mean what they claimed were right.

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No, it is not a smokescreen. Science automatically assumes that every phenomenon has a scientific explanation whether it can be currently explained or that we need to wait 100, 1000, or 10,000 years before our understanding of the natural world is advance enough. What phony front? Being objective is being objective, period.To explain what I mean, let us look at the definition of "miracle".According to webster online, miracle is:1 : an extraordinary event manifesting divine intervention in human affairs
2 : an extremely outstanding or unusual event, thing, or accomplishment
3 Christian Science : a divinely natural phenomenon experienced humanly as the fulfillment of spiritual lawI'm going to assume that you are leaning toward the first one.The problem comes when trying to tell what is a miracle and what is not is how do we know if it is divinely inspired or it is just something that our current scientific knowledge can't comprehend yet?Just think of how many things people thought were miracles 5 hundred years ago that we don't even pay attention to today. I don't agree to this, because there's no way to know. Although this is probably common sense, I never rely on common sense when debating with someone else. How do you constitute "PROVE"? Are you using the method of elimination? Are you using some kind of divine-measuring device? What do you mean by "prove miracles"?Objectively speaking, you can't assume that something is a miracle if it can't be explained by our current scientific theories and knowledges.Gotta go fast. Back for more later. Need to eat dinner.

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Because there are a million possible explanations beside the ones we can currently come up with, and most of them we can't even think of. I don't understand how you can so eagerly accept a phenomenon as somehow divinely inspired yet you simply dismiss possibilities like extraterrestrial intervention. By simply saying "Goddunit," you practically say, "I have no will to bring myself out of my state of ignorance."

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You remind me of a lot of sci fi episodes out there. One in particular is Buffy not knowing if her life as a slayer is real or that the mental hospital she finds herself in is the real one. In the end, she decided that it doesn't matter as long as she's happy with her decision.

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