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Sam Andreades: Science is Cold, Hard Fact; Religion is a Matter of Opinion.

Otto: All I can think is that this huge building we are in is possible because of Newtonian statics.
Giles: Yes! It is a map good enough for sending up a skyscraper, but not good enough for sending up a rocket to nearby stars. And Einstein’s gravity tensor map, my word—that map is so new, we have not even figured out how to use it. But they are maps, and need to find their place in some other source to deliver truth.
Otto: But most of science does not proceed by violent revolution.
Giles: True, most scientists spend their lives filling out an existing theory, uncovering the small anomalies that will eventually grow to bring the whole theory crashing down.
Otto: I mean more than that. You cannot say that all of science is provisional.
Giles: All of science is provisional. There. I said it.

Sam approached me at church yesterday because he found his name on Our Story–turns out that we’re in the Google top-three listing if you search for his name. Isn’t Google-whacking fun? Actually, that’s exactly how he found it: he was using Google to find this article, which he was going to refer to a friend.

This is an article he wrote that he described as being one of the fruits of his graduate work. I’m nowhere near current enough on the arguments of scientific theory to follow everything, but I found the conversation engaging and enlightening.

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