(July 8, 2014 at 6:28 pm)SteveII Wrote: 2. If the universe has an explanation of its existence, that explanation is God."God" is not an explanation. You know, if the god you believed in cared enough to reveal himself plainly to the whole world, you wouldn't have to make such poor arguments just to try to convince us that some kind of god has to exist. Isn't it convenient that everyone's god was busy roaming the world and showing up at parties and putting on grandiose displays of 'godness' and then, just as humanity was really sharpening its record-keeping pencils, he disappears. And he spends the past two-thousand years teasing humanity with clouds shaped like doves, or mildew shaped like the virgin Mary, or Elvis sightings in Las Vegas, or whatever it is that you happen to interpret as 'god reminding us that he's really there.'
The OTG (one true god) needs to step up his game, because he's leaving guys like you with one heck of a mess to have to clean up day after day.
"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
