RE: Science and religion
March 24, 2013 at 2:05 pm
(This post was last modified: March 24, 2013 at 2:06 pm by Tonus.)
(March 24, 2013 at 1:29 pm)jstrodel Wrote: If you say that Christianity is on the same evidential level as the tooth fairy, you are a liar. And you will go to hell.
Well, you can repeat it 20 times, or 20,000.
Or you could, you know, provide some evidence for god. That six-year-old found a quarter under his pillow. You... hear things.
Now that I think of it, the six-year-old has more evidence.
(March 24, 2013 at 2:04 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Where have you used the same reasoning against me?
I said I've been turning your own statements back at you. If you find that they're lacking in reason, I certainly won't disagree.
"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
