RE: ☢The Theistic Response➼ to Atheists saying, "It Doesn't mean God Did it"
November 19, 2016 at 7:15 pm
(November 19, 2016 at 11:47 am)The Joker Wrote: I appreciate your point, but I am having trouble accepting that common argument from atheists, when getting deep into the cosmological argument "It doesn't mean God did it, so I lack belief in God".
If you cannot prove that God did something, then the objection is valid. If you can't even prove that God exists, the objection is probably being used to counter an attempt to demonstrate that God is necessary. Which indicates that you cannot prove he exists since it would be a waste of time to imply that he is necessary if you could do so.
And since the attempts to prove that he is necessary typically come down to "you can't prove he didn't/isn't/can't" then I think it's fair to point out that the opposite is also true.
"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
