I hold that the mark of a genuine idea is that its possibility can be proved, either a priori by conceiving its cause or reason, or a posteriori when experience teaches us that it is in fact in nature.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.
The assumption that nature is all there is, and that nature has been governed by the same rules at all times and places, makes it possible for natural science to be confident that it can explain such things as how life began.
It is characteristic of science that the full explanations are often seized in their essence by the percipient scientist long in advance of any possible proof.
Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.
I think that feeling that if one believed absolutely in any cause, then one must have the confidence, the self-certainty, to go through with that particular course of action.
Belief creates the actual fact.
Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe.
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.