(March 30, 2015 at 10:36 am)Riketto Wrote:(March 30, 2015 at 10:23 am)Tonus Wrote: In other words, if you could prove that god exists, you would prove that god exists. Since you can't, you will fall back on "believe" and nonsense like "searching within." Looks to me like god either does not exist, or does not want to be found. Either way, not a problem for me.
If you don't search in the correct place it is obvious that you will never find that particular thing.
And telling people to "search within" is nonsense. Within what? The "self?" The human body? The chest cavity? The anus?
Why do you types always seem to assume that no one ever performed some manner of introspection before? It's not as if every person that "looks within" comes to the same conclusion, so why would you tell them to "look within" in order to find X? Because we all know that as soon as they say they found something else, the excuses and rationalizations begin. Which is to say, you start to paper over one pile of nonsense with more nonsense.
"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