RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
December 4, 2016 at 3:12 pm
(December 4, 2016 at 2:57 pm)Balaco Wrote: seems like there's an atheistic explanation for anything theistic
I wouldn't put it that way since the 'atheistic explanation' for some things is "we don't know." Theists will occasionally use this lack of an answer as justification for whatever they happen to believe, but that should be unsatisfying to anyone who is sincerely concerned with truth. The need to prove what you claim is not erased by a lack of counterclaims. Aronra's dissection of David Pack's videos shows how Pack uses outdated information and deception to build a case that god has to exist, as opposed to producing positive evidence that god does exist. This is, to me, one of the greatest points against any claims of "proof" for god-- the best theists can seem to come up with is "god is necessary" instead of "god is real."
"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
