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What would convince you that a god exists?

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What would convince you that a god exists?
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RE: What would convince you that a god exists?
May 18, 2013 at 10:44 pm
(May 11, 2013 at 10:49 am)Praetorian Wrote: I've always felt that mathematical and physical arguments against the existence of god are rather silly, because they can always be trumped by the claim of omni-whatever.

Oh, I don't know about that. If you make mathematical and physics arguments against the existence of god and the only response is "well god can do it because he's god," who exactly is the one that is sounding silly?
"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
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RE: What would convince you that a god exists? - by Tonus - May 18, 2013 at 10:44 pm

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