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Former Mississippi House candidate charged after Satanic Temple display is destroyed at Iowa Capitol (apnews.com)

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[–] platypus_plumba 7 points 1 year ago

It is just an event that could explain the current state of the universe. Why is the distance between the planets increasing? Why is space expanding? Scientists come up with explanations to observations, and then try to prove or deny them.

It's not like any of us actually believe that is a irrefutable fact. We won't kill other people for it like religious people have done for centuries if someone denies their god. We have no emotions attached to it, if science discovers that it is false, we won't start a war.

Science never assumes it holds the absolute truth. In fact, science promotes the denial of its own theories through observation and experimentation. That's how the scientific process works. Al's, science is just trying to create useful models that describe and explain the behavior of the universe we live in. We know the models are never absolute, we constantly find that the models are incomplete, but they are still very useful in certain restricted contexts. For example, Newton's equations helped humanity for many years, but they are obviously incomplete compared to modern models.

I hope you now understand how silly your argument was. Please don't compare science with faith again.