(December 23, 2016 at 3:07 pm)AAA Wrote: Well I disagree that there is not evidence. Do you agree that nature exhibits evidence of design at least?
On the surface, yes. As we dig deeper we can see how natural things developed in natural ways. We can also see inefficiencies in the way much of nature is 'designed.' It's great that we have a gas giant (Jupiter) that protects us from a rain of dangerous objects that are hurtling through space so that only some of them hit us. An intelligent designer would've figured out a way to avoid such planet-threatening bombardments from occurring in the first place.
"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
