RE: I am a theist, what do you think of my proof for God existing?
November 27, 2016 at 12:32 pm
(November 27, 2016 at 1:05 am)Astreja Wrote: As this sorry thread approaches the 100-page mark, I've been pondering one question: Why? What drives someone like Mariosep? Why sign up for a forum hostile to one's ideas and repeatedly hammer out the same dissonant chord?
Most likely, he is a troll or Poe. Repeating the same message over and over, ignoring attempts to address it by obfuscating, and pretending to remain above the fray while peppering his commentary with snide rejoinders. If we had more earnest and honest theists who would engage in lengthy discussions, threads like this would die quickly. As it is, they serve as a good example of why we're atheists-- it's genuinely difficult to differentiate this guy from so many of the drive-by bible-thumpers that you find in forums like this one and in comment sections across the web.
"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
