Evolution? How?

Easy, I think that the science predates the science-fiction. All the Victorian writers that wrote about sci-fi (Doyle, Wells, Verne, Shelly etc) were actually writing fiction after hearing about science "theories" or discoveries.

People overestimate what science is able to observe and understand...

you miss the point Rex. Science Fiction usually takes some infant science and novelizes it. Doyle wrote about dinosaurs in a world after studying darwin, Spencer and the field work of Edward Drinker Cope and C O Marsh.


The science came first.

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People overestimate what science is able to observe and understand...

Without science, we wouldn't understand the whys of our environment in any meaningful way. Science also helps us live longer and healthier lives, provides many of the luxuries of life, various modes of transportation, improved modes of communication, and the internet.

It would be more correct to say ?Hard Science Fiction? extrapolates on potentially plausible science. ?SF? for better or worse, encompasses a much wider perspective inclusive of ?Speculative Fiction? and wholly or partly non-scientific future or alternate realty fictions.

But science has an inherent wall that there is utter darkness between what is known and unknown. Science has one blind eye. Faith bridges the gap between God where science leaves off.

Science is the observation and manipulation of the things that formed, made and created us...

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It would be more correct to say ?Hard Science Fiction? extrapolates on potentially plausible science. ?SF? for better or worse, encompasses a much wider perspective inclusive of ?Speculative Fiction? and wholly or partly non-scientific future or alternate realty fictions.

Well, lets explore that. Take some "SF", examples.Lets look at their time of composition, and lets see what we, as a civilization, knew.
Ill wager that the SF writer was internalizing some finding or knowledge that was , or was in the process of , being discovered.

The "science FAnstasy" realm included.

RexRed wrote:

But science has an inherent wall that there is utter darkness between what is known and unknown. Science has one blind eye. Faith bridges the gap between God where science leaves off.

Science is the observation and manipulation of the things that formed, made and created us...

Poppycock!
There is no "inherent wall" in fact science changes and grows all the time.
There is no "utter darkness between what is known and unknown", in fact there is a very broad band of progressively more to progressively less plausibility within science.

Your claims of being a self styled maven of science are wholly unfounded.

See, people do overestimate what science can observe... point.

So are you saying that science can measure anything and that science is all knowing?

Fearthful little creatures who can't let anything interupt their myopic little thoughts other than some off-the-wall, crazily speculative crap that clutters up their brains like cobwebs.

Church offers classes on science of evolution

In Kansas, where teaching evolution is contested, Unitarian Universalist church makes sure people know the facts.
By Donald E. Skinner
4.28.06

If religious conservatives can try to bring religion into the science classroom, can religious liberals bring science into the church?

Absolutely, says the Rev. Thom Belote of the 255-member Shawnee Mission Unitarian Universalist Church in Overland Park, Kans. Tired of seemingly never hearing anything positive about evolution from local churches in a state wracked by evolution controversy, Belote got an idea: Why not teach a course on evolution at his church? Belote shared the idea with a member, Dale Trott, who is manager of environmental studies for a large engineering firm. Trott, who has a master's degree in biology, ran with it.............

Trott said he organized the series because he's learned over the years that most people, even though they may support evolution, don't have a good understanding of it........

Another reason for holding the classes, Belote said, was to draw attention to the church and to UU values..........

The biologist who organized it admits that most people who support evolution don't understand it.