(May 6, 2013 at 4:15 pm)TosinAsLeader Wrote: Who created the stars, planets and creatures? Did they all just appear? From what? If from nothing, than how can nothing be created from nothing?
That only works if you stop asking the question before you get to "god." Otherwise you have to figure out the origins of god. Did he appear from nothing? Was he always there? Was he created by another creator? And who created that creator?
In any case, I don't think that "how did it all get here" qualifies as evidence that points to god. Early man ascribed a lot of things to god and devils that we now understand are caused by pathogens, or atmospheric conditions. As we learn more about our world and our universe, the amount of evidence for god dwindles. Couldn't that be evidence that he doesn't exist?
"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
