Trusting science

[The Barbarian]

We can not predict if we do not know (even we do make models, kids do that too).

That's the good part. The more we know, the more we can predict, precisely because uniformitarianism is right. The universe is knowable and predictable.

Uniformitarianism assumes we know.

No, it acknowledges that we can know.

Catastrophism assumes we do not.

No. Catastrophism assumes that all large scale changes are sudden and discontinuous.

You make the call.

Only uniformitarianism is consistent with reality.

Not much of a choice.

 

[philadiddle]

Uniformitarianism assumes we know.

It does not assume that we know. It is based on what we have observed in the natural world, including evidence from the past. For example if you calculate all of the areas within the earth's strata that used to be surface area, ie wind blown deserts, forests etc, there is way too much surface area to have been made in a couple thousand years prior to the flood. It must have taken time. That's a conclusion, not an assumption.

Catastrophism assumes we do not.

Well I actually agree with you, catastrophism is an assumption.

You make the call.

It's not up to me, it's up to the evidence found in God's creation. I don't think He's a liar.