RE: If someone says science can't explain everything what's the best way to repond?
August 23, 2016 at 2:13 pm
The fact that science can't explain everything (and may never be able to explain everything) is meaningless when it comes to the claims of theists.
Their claims have their own burden of proof, regardless of what science can or can't explain. Thier claims gain no more credibility because science can't explain everything,
Take the evolution debate, for example. Even if evolution were to be proven incorrect tomorrow, that would not offer a shred of evidence that a god is responsible.
Yes, it is nothing more than god of the gaps.
Neil Degrasse Tyson:
"Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here’s a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn’t understand [and now we do understand]. If that’s how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that’s how you want to come at the problem."
Their claims have their own burden of proof, regardless of what science can or can't explain. Thier claims gain no more credibility because science can't explain everything,
Take the evolution debate, for example. Even if evolution were to be proven incorrect tomorrow, that would not offer a shred of evidence that a god is responsible.
Yes, it is nothing more than god of the gaps.
Neil Degrasse Tyson:
"Does it mean, if you don’t understand something, and the community of physicists don’t understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here’s a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn’t understand [and now we do understand]. If that’s how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that’s getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that’s how you want to come at the problem."
You'd believe if you just opened your heart" is a terrible argument for religion. It's basically saying, "If you bias yourself enough, you can convince yourself that this is true." If religion were true, people wouldn't need faith to believe it -- it would be supported by good evidence.
