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numinus


"No human knowledge can proceed without the benefit of axioms or postulate. Not logic, nor mathematics. Certainly not the natural sciences."


You are exactly right. Most people start out with presuppositions but are unaware that that is their starting point. Evolution is a great example of this. Evolution is assumed to be correct and therefore all data must be interpreted in accordance with the presupposition of evolution.


Should the presupposition prove to be erroneous, the data/observation do not change. The data does not support any specific theory. It is human interpretation of data/observations that support theories.


If you assume there is no God, you must interpret any data naturalistically, so as the exclude the existence of God. Since the existence of God can't be proven or disproven, by science, both conditions are equally unknown in the eyes of science. A true scientist knows this and understands that automatically excluding one condition from a theory has the potential to result in the entire tehory be discredited should any portion be discredited.


Presupposions, axioms, undemonstrable assumptions, all affect one's interpretation of data.


My interpretation of the Big Bang is that it may very well be true although it can't be proven, and that conditions of the Big Bang were so finely tuned as to require some form of intelligence.


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