RE: Science and religion
March 24, 2013 at 12:55 am
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2013 at 12:57 am by Tonus.)
(March 24, 2013 at 12:50 am)jstrodel Wrote: I just did produce evidence.
Your hallucinations are not evidence of god. They're evidence that you're seeing things that aren't there. We both presuppose something. You presuppose something you, nor anyone else, has been able to demonstrate to be real. I presuppose something that no one has been able to demonstrate to be false. All of your guesses at my motivations or the sincerity of my attempts to find god are irrelevant. When you can demonstrate god is real, that might matter.
"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
