(April 14, 2016 at 4:50 pm)Brian37 Wrote:(April 14, 2016 at 4:36 pm)Ignorant Wrote: All he asked for was a citation for a scientific paper/scientific text/scientific anything which he could use to educate himself about the things you mention here. He's trying to do his homework. Care to help him out by pointing in the direction of the scientific evidence? If not, are you expecting him to just take you on authority?
I gave him the sources, and still even with those sources, both Dawkins and the Late Stenger would also say what any sane person should say. You make a claim, it is up to you to prove it, it is still not up to them, or me to take their pet god claim into a lab, it is their job. Nobody ever wants to take a god claim into a lab because they all know they wont get anywhere with it.
EVOLUTION is already telling us that our god claims are merely primitive gap filling and are done out of ignorance. Like Dawkins said, the moth mistaking the light bulb for moonlight. I cannot dumb it down any further for them. It literally is a false perception.
But those are not scientific texts. They speak about scientific ideas, concepts and experiments, but they are not the citations of the evolutionary studies for which he was asking. Sure, you may be right about evolution's speaking to the God of the gaps claims, and Dawkins or Stenger might have said as much in their books, but that is not the same as providing the scientific studies which permit Dawkins and Stenger to say it. I think that is what he wanted.
