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Originally Posted by Ravager
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This isn't exactly the difference of Science and Religion, but it's close. The strength of a theory is not in what it can explain, it is in what it can accurately predict. This is where every single religious theory falls flat on its face. While "God did it" serves as an explanation, it tells you nothing new about a phenomenon, nor can you use that theory to make any kind of accurate prediction of what you expect to find about the phenomenon.
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Religion makes guesses (guesses that quite frequently contradict each other), but it doesn't test guesses and the guesses it makes predict nothing. That is the difference between Science and Religion.
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Intelligence is the ability to reliably predict outcomes ^^Science is a method of learning. The fundamental distinction between faith based claims and scientific claims is that is that scientific claims can be tested while their supernatural counterparts
cannot be tested. Both can make predictions, but neither matters if you are unable to test the predictive capacity.
For example, Christianity teaches Christ will return, people who accept Christ will go to heaven and those who do not will go to hell.
Those are all predictions. You cannot test any of them though. That was my point ^^