I agree with your general points in these posts. I'd just add that when it comes to evolution the idea that science is testable is really an illusion because testability requires replicability and you can't replicate a one-time event in the past. History is not replicable.
Evolution theory is in fact NOT tested and NOT testable. It is constructed entirely on imaginative scenarios, hypotheses such as the apparent ordering of the fossils -- how do you test that ordering? You can't. You can only interpret it. They say it shows ages of time in which only certain living things populated the earth; creationists say it shows the massive Flood of Noah that killed every living thing that populated the early creation and deposited it all in stratified sediments to a huge depth. You cannot TEST either hypothesis. All you can do is collect plausibilities in support of them.
They depend so much on that apparent ordering the fact that the fossils are embedded in stratified rock that can't possibly have been laid down either gradually or in periodic events is simply subsumed to their theory and not recognized for the total contradiction it really is to their time scale. The whole edifice of evolution is put together like that, one imaginative construct built upon another, BECAUSE it is NOT testable.
Really, the only objective tool they have at all is radiometric dating, and even that is questionable because there's no way to really KNOW if events in the past are really accurately reflected by it, because THAT can't be tested either -- that is, they get a reading and that's that, no way to test it. But the readings are also questioned by people who know more about how it works than I'll ever know anyway.
I agree with your general points in these posts. I'd just add that when it comes to evolution the idea that science is testable is really an illusion because testability requires replicability and you can't replicate a one-time event in the past. History is not replicable.
Evolution theory is in fact NOT tested and NOT testable. It is constructed entirely on imaginative scenarios, hypotheses such as the apparent ordering of the fossils -- how do you test that ordering? You can't. You can only interpret it. They say it shows ages of time in which only certain living things populated the earth; creationists say it shows the massive Flood of Noah that killed every living thing that populated the early creation and deposited it all in stratified sediments to a huge depth. You cannot TEST either hypothesis. All you can do is collect plausibilities in support of them.
They depend so much on that apparent ordering the fact that the fossils are embedded in stratified rock that can't possibly have been laid down either gradually or in periodic events is simply subsumed to their theory and not recognized for the total contradiction it really is to their time scale. The whole edifice of evolution is put together like that, one imaginative construct built upon another, BECAUSE it is NOT testable.
Really, the only objective tool they have at all is radiometric dating, and even that is questionable because there's no way to really KNOW if events in the past are really accurately reflected by it, because THAT can't be tested either -- that is, they get a reading and that's that, no way to test it. But the readings are also questioned by people who know more about how it works than I'll ever know anyway.