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by pezzana 1646 days ago
There's no need to believe anything in science. In fact, the default position should be disbelief. There are experiments and explanations. Some explanations keep working after many experiments. Many do not. Those explanations that survive many attempts at disproof become accepted. It doesn't happen "all of a sudden."

The claim that the Bible explains creation does not stand up too well to experiment in this regard.

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You need to believe /some/ things in science. It’s just some things go away if you don’t believe in them and some don’t.
"Those explanations that survive many attempts at disproof become accepted"

How can you experiment human origin?

Generate synthetic data according to a model and see if your technique rediscovers the model or not.