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You're comparing science to interpreting scripture? no wonder you're so fucked up.

Of course there is. But you can't equate interpreting data in science to intepreting scripture.

Religion starts with a text, and then interprets the meanings of words and passages to suit the view of the interpreter.

On the other hand, science starts with an observation, procedes to a formulation of a hypothesis, then tests via experiment in order to prove (by attempting to show it is wrong) the hypothesis. Interpreting data gathered by experiment to see if it fits the hypothesis or not has no relationship to arguing for a particular translation of a word or phrase.

If an experimental result is ambiguous - ie, a set of data can be interpreted in different ways - then further testing either by repeating the experiment or through a different one is thus required.


But in relation to evolution there is no other explanation that can interpret the vast amount of data from different fields of science. There is no other theory that explains the data. It follows then, that in the absence of other theories, there is no other interpretation possible.