(January 12, 2015 at 2:02 am)bob96 Wrote: So I can't use the same argument that was used by a world leading atheist?Curious, though, that none of those scientists provided a smidgen of proof for any statements regarding the existence of god. Just belief. In other words, they took the exact opposite approach to the one that led to great scientific theories, discoveries, and progress. That scientific approach also leads to consistent and repeatable results. Yet you can do a Google search and find scientists who believe that it is the Muslim god who exists and is the one true god, and others who believe in the Christian god, and so on. I suspect that none of them compare notes using the same system that allows them to verify one another's work in the field of science.
In that case, I believe what the following scientists believe.
"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
