RE: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof for God existing?
November 16, 2016 at 11:06 am
(November 15, 2016 at 4:55 pm)Mariosep Wrote: Well, please everyone, do you at all know that in every interaction among people with reason and intelligence, there is the parameter accepted and enforced by and among themselves, that there should be already in place concurrence on premises.
So, I am a theist and at present I propose that we all bring up babies to investigate what causes babies.
The whole idea is that theistic arguments in favor of god should get more sophisticated, not less. "God exists because babies are fucked into existence" is not terribly sophisticated. On the other hand, it's understandable that someone who finds that argument compelling would profess a belief in god.
"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
