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You seem to be ignoring the repeated answer that science does not go out the window, but that the sphere and boundaries of science are bounded in such a way that real science cannot contradict Scripture. Perhaps you are capable of grasping that science must be wrong in all cases where it seems to disagree with the moral imperatives of Scripture. Acknowledging that is progress.
Perhaps your eyes might also be opened to the limitations inherent in historical reconstructions based on the assuption that miracles never occur. If the method assumes miracles do not occur, the conclusions of the method do not contradict Scripture, the assumptions do!
Begin Exact Quote (Gould 1984, p. 11):
METHODOLOGICAL PRESUPPOSITIONS ACCEPTED BY ALL SCIENTISTS
1) The Uniformity of law - Natural laws are invariant in space and time. John Stuart Mill (1881) argued that such a postulate of uniformity must be invoked if we are to have any confidence in the validity of inductive inference; for if laws change, then an hypothesis about cause and effect gains no support from repeated observations - the law may alter the next time and yield a different result. We cannot "prove" the assumption of invariant laws; we cannot even venture forth into the world to gather empirical evidence for it. It is an a priori methodological assumption made in order to practice science; it is a warrant for inductive inference (Gould, 1965).
End Exact Quote (Gould 1984, p. 11)
Gould, Stephen Jay. "Toward the vindication of punctuational change."Catastrophes and earth history (1984): 9-16.
also see:
Gould, Stephen Jay. "Is uniformitarianism necessary?" American Journal of Science 263.3 (1965): 223-228.
Gould, Stephen Jay. Time's arrow, time's cycle: Myth and metaphor in the discovery of geological time. Harvard University Press, 1987.
Science doesn't talk about morals. The question I asked you wasn't about morals.
I'll ask the question again: If you were able to talk to someone from the earlier times, and said that the Earth was round, and he accused you of infidelity to the Bible, would you change your mind on the question of the shape of the Earth?
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