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eallen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-16-05 01:48 PM
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25. So, let's not define science as having restricted subject matter.
"Because there is no empirical evidence, science tells us there is no reason to believe in thier existance. Unnatural things dont exist according to science."

I hope you realize that your second sentence doesn't follow from the first? There is a large difference between "no reason to believe existent" and "reason to believe non-existent." Until they were recently discovered, there was no reason (or at least, very little) for western scientists to think a new family of rodent existed in southeast Asia. (The locals knew the rodent existed, of course, but didn't know how important it was to zoology.) That's quite different from the greatest prime number, which we know doesn't exist, and never will be discovered.
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