I live in the world described by them. Their discoveries in chemistry, biology, geology, metorology, engineering, physics, &c make my world possible and predictable. Science gives us understanding.
"Follow?" Scientists aren't our leaders. They're explorers and discoverers.
Yusef, you're equating theologians with scientists. Theology is not science.
Remember I mentioned
method? What makes science science is method, it's what defines science. It's how science works.
1. Scientists observe and gather facts.
2. They ask a question about the facts.
3. They make a hypothesis -- a proposed explanation/answer to the question.
4. They formulate an experiment to test their hypothesis.
5. If the test does not support their proposed explanation, they go back to #2 and formulate another explanation to test.
6. If the experiment
does support their hypothesis, they publish the results so other scientists can critique their work, repeat the experiment, and formulate other experiments to further test the explanation.
Scientific facts are testable, falsifiable and repeatable.
Theology does not work like this. That's why technology and understanding moved at a snail's pace until the past few hundred years -- there was no organized science.
*Science, like mathematics, is the same everywhere. Theology is different everywhere.
*Science is empirical. It begins with observation and goes through the steps above to test it's
explanations.
Religion is
a priori, it
begins with "facts" and, at best, looks for support for them.
*Science tests its hypotheses. Religion does not test. Religion
discourages testing -- or even
questioning.
*Science is falsifiable. Theology is not.
*Scientific facts are provisional. They will change with new observations. Religious 'facts' are writ in stone.
Theologians are not scientists!
NASA has discovered no hidden continents or previous Earths. You can search every meter of the Earth with Google Earth and you will find nothing that is not known.
See above. Scientific methodology was not in general use 1200 years ago.
Bvavoooo
There is just One Science! Exactly such as Mathematics.
Well,
Our differences here are that Whom should we follow for explains the single Science!
You say Stephen Hawking or any other....
We say The Messengers of God!
Your messengers of God don't explain, they just proclaim. Their ideas are not part of science, and are are based on nothing.
Unlike science and mathematics, there is no agreement amongst theologians. There is no "single theology."
Your quoting folklore, not science. Science does not say to drink 8 glasses of water per day. (how much is a "glass," anyway?)
Drink 8 Glasses of Water a Day: Fact or Fiction?
Your scientists have commanded you? Since when do scientists command?
What is the source of your "scientists'" command? I'll bet it had nothing to do with science.
So? What's your point?