(October 18, 2015 at 3:07 pm)Blondie Wrote:(October 18, 2015 at 2:57 pm)robvalue Wrote: There seems to be a huge misconception among some theists that either the theory of evolution is true, or else creationism is true and God exists.
Not the case at all. If the theory of evolution was proven to be wrong, we would then have an absence of an efficient model for a time. Scientists would either reform hypotheses based on the current ones to try and take into account the new information, or (drastic and unlikely) form entirely new hypotheses from scratch. They would then test and retest these, until a new stable and reliable model was agreed upon.
What they would not do is say, "Oh well, we can't explain it with science at the moment, so it was done by magic, by a god." That's just absolutely ridiculous, it's no explanation at all. It's giving up on reality and telling stories instead.
I doubt there's a single atheist on this site who would automatically believe in God (let alone worship it also) just because a scientific theory was proved to be wrong. God is irrelevant, because it's not even a hypothesis. It's a fairy tale, until such time as it can be defined and made testable.
Since you brought up evolution and creationism, I will ask a question. There are some theists who actually believe both is true. The creation in the Bible does not say on the scientific end of how God did create the universe, humans, etc. No one knows how long the days were in the beginning. Time may have existed, but I was not there personally just like anyone else in existence today. What is your take on the theists who combine both?
Unless you take Genesis as allegorical, the length of the day is quite clearly spelled out.
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