RE: How do you know God isn't dead?
May 6, 2013 at 8:59 am
(This post was last modified: May 6, 2013 at 9:00 am by Tonus.)
(May 4, 2013 at 9:15 am)pocaracas Wrote: Yes, it is presumptuous, but it is valid on any theist who comes to AF.org to "tell those pesky atheists how their faith works"...
I'd like to think that for every intractable theist who posts here, there are many more (er, "tractable") ones who just read. And if these discussions help them on the road to deconversion, then they're worth the trouble to have.
"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