(July 28, 2015 at 9:11 am)lkingpinl Wrote: Science will continue to pursue in hopes to answer it by natural means and deist/theists espouse that there must be a creator that lies outside this system that put the whole thing in to motion.
No, that is my point. Science will continue to pursue knowledge because there are still things to discover and learn. It does not have a specific goal of finding the natural cause for every effect, just the cause. Whether or not the cause is god, science does its job. It is the deist/theist who wants for the answers to fit into a particular framework. A scientist may be confident that he will not find god and he may even desire such an answer, but as those scientists of the past learned, reality does not bend to such whims. It just is what it is.
"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
