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| Feb 10, 2015 at 16:54 | comment | added | pterandon | I believe this answer is exactly wrong. You may feel that creationists of any stripe don't submit to evidence of disproofs, but that is completely different from the question of whether a worldview that spends so much time talking about physical evidences CAN be disproved. Furthermore, OEC has testable model: reasons.org/articles/… | |
| Feb 10, 2015 at 12:57 | comment | added | David Stratton | This is the only answer (so far) that even attempts to follow the site guidelines of answering what a particular group teaches rather than what is "true". | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 14:49 | comment | added | Flimzy | +1 because I think this accurately answers the question from the perspective of Creationists. I think it's also full of gaping holes (specifically the idea that science can't tell us anything about the past--only Creationists make this outlandish claim). | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 13:55 | comment | added | curiousdannii♦ | @Walter And it remains ultimately impossible to prove the big bang. It's the best model for the universe, and our observations are consistent with it, but there's no way to prove it actually happened. It would be indistinguishable from a universe created with apparent age, an uncomfortable and yet necessary consequence of creationism. That's why the past is outside the power of science. We can never actually test it. | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 13:46 | comment | added | Walter Mitty | The assertion that the scientific method cannot test the past is often made when creationism is contrasted with mainstream science. However, the scientific community does not see itself as limited in this way. For example, when Hubble proposed the Big Bang theory, in contrast to the steady-state theory, scientists set about seeing whether the available evidence would tend to validate or falsify Hubble's theory. But there was no widespread questioning about whether or not Hubble's theory was within the purview of science. | |
| Feb 9, 2015 at 12:05 | history | answered | curiousdannii♦ | CC BY-SA 3.0 |