(March 17, 2013 at 3:07 pm)taylor93112 Wrote: any act of immorality in the bible that i mention to them, i get the response "God has a bigger plan and he see's the bigger picture. we do not understand why these things happened, and no one can understand. No one can understand the mind of God".
i do not know how to reply to that. i feel like there should be an easy answer.. but im just missing it.
any help?
There is nothing to respond to, because they're not really making an argument, they're conceding it. You can answer any number of ways, and it won't matter, because they've conceded the argument.
I suppose you could make them squirm by telling them that perhaps it is god's plan for you to not believe in him. The only possible responses are to accept that you may be right, or claim that you're wrong-- but that would require understanding the mind of god.
"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
