(January 3, 2017 at 2:14 am)Esquilax Wrote: The trouble here is that design proponents don't actually have any positive indicators of the position they hold.
I think that this is where we stand in the question of God's existence. Since God will not show up, the only option left is to demonstrate that he is necessary. A "gaps argument" by any other name...
"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
