RE: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof for God existing?
November 10, 2016 at 7:47 am
(October 24, 2016 at 5:27 am)Mariosep Wrote: What do you think about my proof for the existence of God?
Sounds like a re-working of the Kalam argument, which requires us to accept a lot of things about God that cannot be known.
If we accept the premise and conclusion then we end up reasonably certain that God exists, but not absolutely certain.
If we grant that the conclusion is true and that God exists, we reach a conclusion that is shared by pretty much every theist. So it has that going for it. Now all you need is for all of those theists to sit down and figure out who that God is and what she wants. Otherwise, you have a God that created everything and then went away. Or worse, a God who occasionally meddles in human affairs but will not reveal itself and guide humanity out of its spiritual darkness. And that sounds like a wicked God.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
