(March 24, 2013 at 2:10 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The most persuasive evidence comes when you seek God yourself and you realize the power that God has to change lives.I agree with this. Many people seek god. None find him, but some do not accept that, and so they delude themselves. And self-delusion can be more convincing than nothing, especially if nothing is the answer they do not want.
jstrodel Wrote:or that you will turn around and repeat a canned response to these various arguments you have probably not spent more than an hour or so thinking about each.This presumes that shallow arguments require any time to consider at all.
"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
