>If a new explanation comes along that better describes what you experience and that better predicts the outcome, then the old assumptions are thrown away and hypotheses are revised.
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>In faith and religion you have infallibility, dogma and therefore nothing can change, everything is preordained. God is immutable. No room for dissent or alternate explanations.

And it is important to understand why. The scientist believes that knowledge has one source (reason) while the theist believes there are two seperate sources (reason and revelation) which do not overlap or interact.

There really isn't a reasonable response to this position since by definition reason itself is incapable of addressing what has been revealed.

It explains why questions like those in message#1030286 get no response.

Why should I have to justify what has been revealed as true? the puppet thinks as the result of a successfull defense mechanism enacted by the puppet master meme.