(June 15, 2011 at 7:14 pm)duck101 Wrote: I have heard countless atheists claim that the TOE proves that God doesn’t exists. I’m glad that no one argued this, but I was a little surprised that not one of you took that side.
It was apparently a hang up for Darwin himself (since notions of the creation were so bound up with Christianity), but I think more believers today, even unbelievers (while they don't buy it), can at least imagine a god causing the big bang and then perhaps overseeing evolution by natural selection. This is a plausible in theory to many believers, while in Darwin's day, it seems that to reject creationism was pretty much to reject God altogether.
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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We have lingered in the chambers of the sea | By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown | Till human voices wake us, and we drown. — T.S. Eliot
"... man always has to decide for himself in the darkness, that he must want beyond what he knows. ..." — Simone de Beauvoir
"As if that blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world. Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again." — Albert Camus, "The Stranger"
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