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Clarification required	Michael	Wednesday, September 11, 2013
Question: I refer to the discussion on evolution at http://www.saint-mike.net/qa/df/viewanswer.asp?QID=195 on March 25, 2013 where you said, "Science is based upon probabilities not certainties". That confuses me. If 2+2 always=4, that's certainty, isn't it? Could you elaborate? Michael from India
Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r), LTh, DD Dear Michael: Science and Math are two different disciplines. Science uses Math as a tool, but Math is a discipline unto itself. With that said, it is Math that is used by Science to figure probabilities and which shows the lack of absolutes. In science itself, there are few to no absolutes. There is certainly no absolutes in the theory of evolution. When we get into Quantum Physics absolutes fly out the window. God Bless, Bro. Ignatius Mary

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I refer to the discussion on evolution at http://www.saint-mike.net/qa/df/viewanswer.asp?QID=195 on March 25, 2013 where you said, "Science is based upon probabilities not certainties". That confuses me. If 2+2 always=4, that's certainty, isn't it? Could you elaborate?

Michael from India

Question Answered by Bro. Ignatius Mary, OMSM(r), LTh, DD

Dear Michael:

Science and Math are two different disciplines. Science uses Math as a tool, but Math is a discipline unto itself.

With that said, it is Math that is used by Science to figure probabilities and which shows the lack of absolutes. In science itself, there are few to no absolutes. There is certainly no absolutes in the theory of evolution. When we get into Quantum Physics absolutes fly out the window.

God Bless,
Bro. Ignatius Mary