[OnyxCougar]

This is from the link wolf posted:

Science is all about proof and testing. Scientific method entails coming up with a hypothesis to explain an event or process, then testing that hypothesis to see whether it works.

Agreed. But you can't test origins.

If it [the hypothesis] does [work], it becomes a theory -- a working explanation with the weight of evidence to support it.

Also agreed. But there is no evidence for origins. It isn't observable or testable. It's a bunch of guesses.

If you cannot disprove a theory, you may have discovered a fact. If the hypothesis can be disproved, it must be discarded and a new explanation postulated, and so on.

It's all about your starting presuppositions and the way the evidence is interpreted. There is alot of science out there, and a few ways to interpret the facts we can observe and duplicate.

And on a personal note, I don't buy the intelligent design theory any more than the evolutionary theory. And ID theory is NOT the same as creationist. Usually, when you say "creationist" you mean a person who believes in 6 literal days of creation. ID theorists generally believe that God did it in millions of years.

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If you CAN prove it, then you destroy it -- it becomes fact. There's no longer any merit or moral benefit to belief in it, any more than there's a moral benefit to belief in gravity, or spiritual merit to the belief that airplanes can fly.

So since you can't prove origins, then even the evolutionary theory is faith.
Religion.
Interesting.