(March 15, 2013 at 5:49 pm)ronedee Wrote: And here is the Atheistic paradox....You are willing to accept the fact that there are things you don't know about.....BUT, God is not one of them! Even IF He created EVERYTHING!
On the contrary. I am willing to accept that there are things we don't know about... including god. It seems to me that the only difference between us is that you ponder the lack of evidence for god and decide that he's there, and I ponder the lack of evidence and decide that he's not. You are able to provide as much proof for his existence as I am able to provide against it. For everything except god, we'd reach the same conclusion.
"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
