(April 10, 2013 at 1:58 am)Alter2Ego Wrote: You're the one attempting to rebut, so go right ahead and prove to this forum that there is no Jehovah. Start by explaining how the common ancestor came to life by itself so that "evolution" could then supposedly occur.First, again, you don't prove a negative.
Prove there is no Ra, or Zeus, or Thor, or Sauron, or Loch Ness monster. If you believe in Jehovah because there's no direct evidence he doesn't exist, then you must believe in everything. Literally.
Second, if we don't know, we don't know. Period. End of story. You can't just automatically insert a particular god in that gap.
We don't know exactly how life started on Earth, therefore we were put here by aliens. (See how that works?)
How many things were attributed to gods in the past when people didn't understand how they worked? Then, were did that god go once we did figure it out?
Contrary to what it seems many theists believe, there's no time limit for figuring out how something works. If it takes us 5 years, or 10, or 50, or 500, or 1000 years and we actually figure out how life started here.... so what? The gap is closed, god is squeezed out, and it's the same whether it's 5 years or 1000 years from now.
