(April 4, 2013 at 9:42 am)MysticKnight Wrote: If you admit you can be wrong about everything, you admit you can be wrong that you aren't suppose to know God exists or Christianity is true via the holy spirit. This doesn't change the strength of the arguments you present, it just shows you lack confidence that your opponents are wrong.
I think that the idea is that if you can get the non-theist to admit that there are gaps, you can fill them with 'god.' If neither person knows, the theist can fill the gap, the non-theist can at best fill it with guesses, assumptions, theories, etc. If the theist starts from "do you know for certain that god isn't there?" he can fill that gap with god and from that point he's rolling right along with his god-grout-gun, filling gaps as fast as he can find them.
"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
