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Originally Posted by Lyenae  Claiming evolution is true is like finding a coin, on the floor, next to the table, and insisting it must have fallen off it.
If someone disagrees with you, obviously they are uneducated. |
While your analogy is decent, I think your assessment of the scientific reasoning method is unsound.
For one thing, someone using the scientific method wouldn't just see the coin on the floor and make a definitive proclamation as to how it got there. Instead, they'd question every possible way it could get there, test them all out, prove or disprove them, and boil their guess down to the most probable and rational explanation possible. If they arrived at a conclusion, that conclusion is based on testing, questioning, re-questioning, re-testing, and intepretation of the test results.
Religion, by contrast, undergoes none of these levels of inquiry. Everything is handed to you in a book, and you need not prove or disprove any of it. All you have to do is accept it.