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by defrost 1018 days ago
Yes it is.

Predictable reliable cause and effect is entirely sufficient to cleanly differentiate science from religions that have no such demonstrable experiments.

> There's not a practical way to test out every scientific fact

They're documented - pick one that ionterests you and lets go on the reproduction.

Can we say the same about any "fact" of a religion? - WE can about the bulk facts in science.

That's your cleaving differentiation.

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> > There's not a practical way to test out every scientific fact

> They're documented - pick one that ionterests you and lets go on the reproduction.

In all fairness, I made a straightforward statement and you have assumed I said something else - I did not say any single scientific "fact". This is not the point that I was making (trying to disprove a fact).

> Can we say the same about any "fact" of a religion?

You're getting into the weeds here. If I have a religion that's called AlmostScience that includes a fairy tale that teaches morality but otherwise teaches the history and practices of the scientific method. Is it not a religion? I'm making an equivalence claim and you're attacking details of a strawman religion.