Fervent
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If the world was not brought into existence by what is visible, the things we can find based on what we can see cannot explain how God created the world.I don't see how.
I've already stated why it is "successful"...it's recursive/self-correcting nature. It's persuasive because of a sampling error called survivorship bias. The graveyard of failed scientific theories is quickly forgotten, and only the ones that survive the tests are taken into consideration. The methods inolved explain the success independent of the theoretical constructs.Then why does it work and produce tangible results? If it's all illusory as you seem to believe, then any method would produce equivalent results, with the scientific method being no better than random people just making things up.
The "successfulness" argument addresses a necessary condition for truth, but there are at least two considerations for truthfulness. Necessity and sufficiency. Science seems to be able to establish a fair case of necessity, but it is unclear if it can provide an answer to sufficiency.
I take Him at His word that He will hand people over to their own destructive ends. He promises a strong delustion because people prefer to live in darkness than walk after the light.You may believe that reality is really just "shadows on a cave wall", but I can't agree. I don't believe God creates misleading or false realities.
He never promised we could trust empirical appearance. His promise is that we must walk by faith, not by sight.Yes it does.
Being wowed by technical prowess isn't really suggestive of truth value. We're talking about justifying what it is we believe to be true here, and ultimately the best science can muster in that regard is consensus opinions that have not currently been proven false. The method has a high level of utility, but utility is not the same thing as truth. In fact, a lot of things that are useful increase in utility the more we abstract them from reality such as road maps.Nothing in scripture tells us that we can use rockets to send robots to other planets either. So "it isn't in the Bible" doesn't mean we can't therefore do it.
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