What are the basic principles of science that apply to the study of biological origins?
The basis of scientific inquiry and the means by which science establishes reliability in its findings is evidence derived from observations and experiments made in the material world. Observations and experiments provide the connection between abstract scientific theories, principles, and laws and the actual behavior of the natural world. Observation is what grounds scientific findings in reality. Science seeks to discover natural causes to provide natural explanations for what is observed in nature. However, to say that natural causes are the only causes or to dogmatically assert that everything about the material world can be explained through material causes alone are philosophical statements and not objective statements about scientific methodology. Science makes no presuppositions about the existence or non-existence of transcendent causes. Neither does science make any presuppositions regarding the influence or effect a transcendent cause might have in the material world or the
