(June 17, 2013 at 2:27 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: Yeah, that's why you can never win an argument with theists. They always play the magic card for a trump. I personally consider the argument won if they have to resort to that.
There are two fall-back positions that effectively end any argument. One is "god can do anything" and the other is "you cannot judge god" (often stated as "who are you to say that god can't do that?"). Which is just another way of saying "god did it, and you can't prove he didn't."
"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
