RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
September 8, 2014 at 8:53 am
(September 6, 2014 at 1:14 am)snowtracks Wrote: like we didn't know hawking is atheist and his latest book would have a naturalism conclusion. admirable of you to watch over some unsuspecting posters that might read a few sentences on a mssg board and change their worldview. if they really are that weak-minded seems it would be best to just let them go.It seems as if you are projecting. It is theists who have to make all knowledge and understanding fit into a presupposed framework with god at the center of it all. There have been times when scientists who promoted knowledge that contradicted prevailing religious beliefs were under pressure to reject or even oppose those beliefs, in some cases on pain of imprisonment or death. The weak-minded were those who refused to accept new knowledge and understanding because it might shake the foundations of their faith.
the contemporary scientific enterprise is locked in to interpreting data to fit into a naturalism framework which means all theories, discoveries, and phenomenon must explained materialistically or make an appeal to the future. so what else could he say even if he thought otherwise?
Scientists can and do change and update our knowledge and understanding all of the time. That's how we make progress. That's how we went from chiseling glyphs into stone tablets to playing video games on electronic tablets. The people who sat around waiting for god to create a laptop computer died disappointed.
"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