(October 18, 2011 at 7:05 am)lucent Wrote: I don't have to prove anything in this thread. Feel free to prove any of those truths I listed scientifically though. While you're at it, you can tell me all about the origin of life..
Sorry, go again? You want me to prove the truths that YOU listed? Are you sure about that? What is it you're asking me to prove scientifically?
As an example of you misrepresenting the views of atheists, your statement that we say we don't know how life started or how the universe started but say that God didn't do it is completely false. It is usually said that there is no evidence to point to God doing it. This is where you do have to prove something. We don't know everything about those things, and neither do you, or any other believer.
You, like many theists, think that if we don't have the answers to absolutely everything right now, that means there's something wrong. So you put God in there. This is called a God of the Gaps argument. Like how God was assumed to be in charge of lightning, before we discovered how it happens and were able to harness it. As scientific discovery expands, God finds less and less gaps to jump in. Maybe one day there'll come a time when he runs out of all scientific gaps, and then all you'll be able to say is 'I have faith'. Your faith is worthless.
