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– By Byron Jennings, Theorist and Project Coordinator Model dependent realism. I’m aware that this succinct definition sounds like an oxymoron: if it is model dependent how can it be realism? Model dependent realism comes from the book The Grand Design by Hawking and Mlodinow. The essential idea is that science is model building, but the internal aspects of the models are not significant; reality is model dependent. All our theories, laws, hypotheses are models, models for how the universe works.
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T he Bible tells us that God created Adam and Eve just a few thousand years ago, by some fundamentalist interpretations. Science informs us that this is mere fiction and that man is a few million years old, and that civilization just tens of thousands of years old. Could it be, however, that conventional science is just as mistaken as the Bible stories? There is a great deal of archeological evidence that the history of life on earth might be far different than what current geological and anthropological texts tell us. Consider these astonishing finds:
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