RE: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof for God existing?
November 11, 2016 at 8:02 am
(November 11, 2016 at 4:04 am)Mariosep Wrote: I did not say as you put it in No. 1 “a concept, and nothing more,” what I say for nth times already is that: the concept will guide us to search for the entity in objective reality of existence corresponding to the concept: so, please take care to not put words in my mouth that it [the word God] is a concept only and nothing more.
Do you realize that what you are saying is that you reached your conclusion first and are using that conclusion to help you sift through the "evidence"? Because that's one reason why your approach is flawed. If your approach was valid and there really was a god, then your approach would lead everyone to the same god.
Why doesn't your approach lead every person who follows it to the same god? And do keep in mind that for any of the gods that you do not believe in, someone can use that same explanation to invalidate yours.
"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
