(November 26, 2016 at 11:52 am)purplepurpose Wrote: Its offers an opinion on worldview "If science doesn't prove the existence of God, then he most certainly He doesn't exist".
That's not an opinion, it's just a statement. And it's wrong. Science is not tasked with proving or disproving god, it is a way of learning how the world and universe around us work. The fact that hundreds of years of discovery and research have not turned up a scrap of evidence for god gives us cause to doubt that any such thing is out there, but that's not the goal of scientific inquiry. People may choose to believe because the idea of an afterlife is desirable --especially when it is so poorly developed that we can easily decide what it is-- but I don't think that they would choose a brutal god over atheism. They simply refuse to believe that a god who acts as brutally as Yahweh will treat them in such a manner. When presented with the dichotomy of a bloodthirsty tyrant who nonetheless personifies love, they dismiss the part they don't like. Sure --they reason-- god acted in a brutal and terrifying manner in the OT, but he's much nicer these days! You know, the eternal and unchanging Yahweh...
"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
