(March 18, 2013 at 9:58 pm)jstrodel Wrote: There is no science anywhere not one journal not one paper no experiment nothing anywhere that you can point to anywhere that disproves the existence of miracles.There is no science anywhere not one journal not one paper no experiment nothing anywhere that you can point to anywhere that disproves the existence of the tooth fairy.
Quote:God doesn't seem like H'Shem is not there to me. I see miracles regularly. I know that they exist and it seems absolutely ridiculous to me for anyone to suggest that something I experience on a regular basis does not exist simply because they aren't spiritual enough to experience it.This is where the discussion on spirituality inevitably leads. The believer in miracles is unable to produce evidence for them, but that just proves that everyone else is lacking in the ability to experience them. The inability to "prove" the non-existence of something that we cannot observe or detect is somehow considered reason to accept that it could be true, even though in pretty much every other area of our lives, we would consider that notion preposterous.
"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
