“It is ALL interpretation. Don't you see that?”
No, because scientists posting their interpretations go through peer-review, where fellow experts can say things like ‘You don’t have evidence for this statement’ or ‘this claim was refuted by Myers-Capital in 2009.’
Creationist interpretations get as far as mentioning the supernatural and get shitcanned because it’s not science.
“Creationists are just as good at coming up with contrary interpretations of any of it given enough experience with the material.”
No, they’re really not.
They absolutely HAVE to end up in the place where Genesis is accepted as literal, so they pick and choose the evidence and THEN tie the acceptable bits into a interpretation.
Scientist explanations have to accommodate all the (actual) evidence.
“There is no PROOF, don't you see?”
Well, nothing in science is ‘proven.’ THat’s for math and logic.
“No evidence,”
Except for the fossils, the DNA, the age of the earth, the geology, and so on.
“no testability,”
I live down the road from MIT. Science does not require testability, because that would mean astrophysicists trying to make a star go nova in a lab way too close to me.
It would also mean that forensics would actually require them to commit a murder in order to establish their testimony about the murder.
“no falsifiability,”
Show me a rabbit fossil in the Jurassic. That’d falsify a shitload.
“it's all INTERPRETATION,”
Not all of it.
“all PLAUSIBILITIES against PLAUSIBILITIES.”
Okay, just SAY you don’t understand science and get on with it.
“Find all the similarities you want they are JUST AS WELL explained in terms of design factors, or, in the case of apparent shared genetic anomalities or mistakes, by the effects of the Fall on all life.”
No. That’s using magic. ‘sin’ having an affect on physical traits is not a scientific explanation. Therefore NOT just as well explained.
“Our genes are broken because of the Fall.”
But geology shows that the fall never happened. DNA puts our adam and our eve thousands of years apart.
“There is NO COMPELLING REASON to explain any of it in terms of descent.”
Just the definition of science, that’s all.