Some people do not believe they can TRULY be saved if they do not understand EVERY LITTLE DETAIL of doctrine.
Like were Adam and Eve naked in our sense - or were they obscured by that ball of golden light that covered them from shoulders to knees?
Did the snake have legs before the fall? If so, how big were they?
What happened to all the fish when God killed everything in the Flood except the occupants of the Ark. Did they die too?
I know that was not what Radrook was talking about.
It depends on how important a person makes getting answers to these sorts of question, and what they think those answers would tell them. They are not about doctrine.
In regard to science, scientific models can organise theories, but if consistent they'll always be incomplete according to Godel, if I have understood him.
Now back to time-travel experiments. The first thing to note is that science is always retesting, even when they think they have found something, as they need to see if it is a real discovery, rather than an anomaly. Unfortunately the Media sometimes doesn't report with the reserve that scientists couch their 'discoveries' with.
The major problem here is that serious science deals in the
nature of things as they are, and looks for structures, mechanisms and such. It doesn't try to make stuff do things it normally doesn't do. Rather it tries to answer questions about what stuff normally does.
'Science advances in two ways,' remarks Jeans, 'by the discovery of new facts, and by the discovery of mechanisms or systems which account for the facts already known.
The outstanding landmarks in the progress of science have all been of the second kind.'
