How is religion any different than creative speculation???

[Warren DeMontague]

14. because there is a solid evidentiary basis for all of our assertions regarding those things.

We base our theories on what is at the center of the Earth not just on some shit we feel like making up at any given moment, but by a combination of what we understand from plate tectonics, verified acoustic models of what happens through the earth during Earthquakes, the magnetism generated by the Earth's core, and things like what we know re: the composition of lower layers of rock, because some of those rocks come up through volcanoes or cycling of the continents.

The sun- we have a good grasp of the chemical composition of the sun, again, from physical evidence- and we know the energy produced by the fusion reactions inside. Just because we can't see the center of the sun, doesn't mean we can't make very educated guesses about what happens inside it.

Nothing can travel faster than light? Fuck, maybe it can. Spacetime itself might very well be able to. But matter traveling through spacetime- not likely, because we also have a solid understanding of relativity, the mathematics of which are likewise well-verified by data and evidence. We know what happens to particles when they approach the speed of light, including mass changes and time dilation.

So no, it's NOT "all creative speculation". There is a vast difference between a scientific theory that is well-established and backed up by a solid evidentiary framework, and a "theory" like "Aliens stole my tv dinner".

It's fucking tiresome, this much-beloved-by-creationists idea that ALL postulations are created equal. They're not. I can postulate that sometime in the next 24 hours I will need to take a poop, that is backed up by biology, logic and medical fact. I can postulate that sometime in the next 24 hours I will turn into the golden gate bridge, and that's just some shit I made up.

There's a big difference between science and shit someone made up.