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It seems you are saying that
a) good scientific theories can be true
b)scientific theories with little experimental support may be true
c)non scientific theories may be true
Would you go so far as to say that truth may be discovered by non scientific
means?
Science does not deal in "truth." Pretending that it does is
responsible for a lot of very dangerous mischief by its enemies.
[A]re you saying that [a] scientist who DOES believe that
supernatural events occur would, nevertheless, NOT offer
supernatural explanations for observations in the lab? Why on Earth
not? Doesn't that seem more than a little odd?
That does not seem odd to me. A Christian who is a scientist may
believe that science is a way of discovering truth (a very good and
interesting way) but not the only way. He or she may also believe
that while supernatural events do occur, they are not at all common
events. Thus this scientist would hesitate greatly to confer the
status of supernatural to any event observed in the lab (though they
would likely not rule it out altogether.) Even if such a scientist
believed he had observed a supernatural event there is no way to
examine the event scientifically since there is no way to perform
repeated measurements (supernatural events are rare and even more
rarely repeated!) The event may have occured and be true yet not
scientifically verifiable.