(October 28, 2012 at 4:15 pm)Darkstar Wrote: I understand everything you said above until this. Do we need to discuss the 'theory' of gravity again?
Gravity is a theory. For all I know, there is no force between objects. It's all enforced by a Creator for example. For all I know, material objects don't exist, and only souls exists, and there is a designer giving rise to our experience of the material world.
The whole way the world works, atoms, etc, perhaps none of the laws are intrinsic to existence. They simply are being imposed by a higher power.
If gravity was a fact, I would suspect the philosophical argument of whether we know a physical world exists would be debunked.
Quote:You don't need to deny evolution to believe in a god. Some people believe that god created the universe knowing that life would arise and evolve in the way it did.
I know but most people who believe in religion and evolution are trying to get the best of both "authorities", religious and scientist, and not to do critical thinking themselves, from my honest opinion.
Most Deists probably believe in evolution, but it's mainly due to trusting authority.
We all know about the DNA, transitional forms, mutations, natural selection, but we aren't all convinced it happened.
It's a good theory, brilliant, and has predictive power, and helps us out in science, but it's not conclusive.
It may well be a fact, but it's quite a different thing, if we actually know to be true. The evidence maybe strong, but it still might wrong to place too much trust in it.
In other words, if we get all fanatical about defending it, and then one day some brilliant scientist comes proving how many things are impossible in nature to have formed by the process, then we will look as fanatical deluded as the religious people with their theories of religion
