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      The Institute for Creation Science has a free magazine available upon request. Here's the website link: http://www.icr.org/subscriptions/signup 
  
    
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      Craig wrote: "The Institute for Creation Science has a free magazine available upon request. Here's the website link: http://www.icr.org/subscriptions/signup 
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I looked up the website for a laugh. It goes to show how people misunderstand science, and how evidence is the foundation of science. There is no faith involved. Every scientific theory can be challenged, even the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. Science is not a collection of facts -- it is a process. There are holes in just about every scientific theory--that is, gaps in our understanding. Gradually the gaps get filled, new gaps appear, and so on. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
A "theory" in scientific jargon is not the same as a hypothesis. It is not a wild guess or speculation. It is a model of nature, supported by a huge amount of evidence accumulated over time. When evidence is gathered that contradicts the theory, then the theory is called into question. This, in fact, is happening right now with our understanding of the early universe, with the new data from the James Webb telescope.
  
  
  
"I looked up the website for a laugh. It goes to show how people misunderstand science, and how evidence is the foundation of science. There is no faith involved. Every scientific theory can be challenged, even the Theory of Evolution by Natural Selection. Science is not a collection of facts -- it is a process. There are holes in just about every scientific theory--that is, gaps in our understanding. Gradually the gaps get filled, new gaps appear, and so on. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
A "theory" in scientific jargon is not the same as a hypothesis. It is not a wild guess or speculation. It is a model of nature, supported by a huge amount of evidence accumulated over time. When evidence is gathered that contradicts the theory, then the theory is called into question. This, in fact, is happening right now with our understanding of the early universe, with the new data from the James Webb telescope.
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