Since Randall made such a great comment...

on the last post, I thought we would flesh that out a little bit here. A key component of science is "repeatability"! "Science is based on facts"...so goes the claim. The effect of gravity, water boiling or freezing...we see the repeatability of science.

But take what Stephen Jay Gould says about Evolutionary Science in his book Wonderful Life: "you can't go home again, evolutionarily, unless you want to risk not being here when you come back." (quoted in Horner, How to Build a Dinosaur, 1)

Horner goes on to say: "What he [Gould] was saying was that evolution is a chance business, contingent on many influences and events. You can't rewind it and run it over and hope to get the same result. The second time through Homo Sapiens might not appear. Primates might not appear." (Horner, 2)

So evolutionary science is un-repeatable! It not only is impossible to test; but impossible to replicate.

The NOMA Theory of Faith and Reason at its best. Horner and Gould want their faith separate from their reason and scientific thinking; but as we can see there is no repeatability and empiricism that can be accomplished in Evolutionary studies!

Why do you think repeatability is a key to scientific investigation? What does "faith" have to do with "repeatability"?