Can you make assumptions in science?

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^Nicely put

^ Idiotic creationism. He is not worth debating as there is no basis in his world view that he can be wrong.

A posthumous reply posted by Albert...

The supreme task of the physicist is … the search for those most general, elementary laws from which the world picture is to be obtained through pure deduction. No logical path leads to these elementary laws; it is instead just the intuition that rests on an empathic understanding of experience. In this state of methodological uncertainty one can think that arbitrarily many, in themselves equally justified systems of theoretical principles were possible; and this opinion is, in principle, certainly correct. But the development of physics has shown that of all the conceivable theoretical constructions a single one has, at any given time, proved itself unconditionally superior to all others. No one who has really gone deeply into the subject will deny that, in practice, the world of perceptions determines the theoretical system unambiguously, even though no logical path leads from the perceptions to the basic principles of the theory. (Einstein 1918

David you are a one trick pony. You came onto this site claiming loudly that you were going to metaphorically "chop off our legs" You then proceeded to sound like a second rate Ken Ham spouting nonsense about entropy. Once that argument was torn to shreds you slunk away and shut up for a while but here you are again talking about "self evident truths" and uncaused first causes, whilst lampooning the world of science and its luminaries. And you have the temerity to call me Silly and Arrogant On occasion I may be silly and most certainly I can be arrogant but unlike you I try my hardest not to be willfully foolish and also unlike you I will accept when I am wrong.

The simple fact is, and yes, it is a fact, we do not know how the universe or more likely universes came into being. This does not mean that a priori there must be an intelligent creator. For some reason you are unable to understand this concept, that is your own failing and one that non of us here can help you with, maybe with time you will come to understand but I doubt it.

It is recommended not to chain assumptions. e.g. assumptions based on assumptions. You need to establish some facts first. An assumption could be a hypothesis but it need falsifiability.

Speculation for speculations sake, is a bad basis for hypothesis. People can speculate then start the believing their own hype.

You have believe you could be wrong. This is difficult to do at the best of times.

Albert again:


"I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts."
Albert Einstein

Why doesn't David talk about his cattle business? That would be interesting.