(June 18, 2013 at 9:51 pm)BettyG Wrote:(June 18, 2013 at 9:11 am)Tonus Wrote: That just reinforces my impression. How do we define that which we cannot even perceive?Aren't you basing your questions on Rene Descartes' philosophy?
I am basing my question on the assumption that we can broaden the definition of "metaphysics" to include god(s). I am not sure how we get from claiming that love and math are immaterial to having this provide any sort of path to supernatural deities that take a direct hand in the shaping of the universe and a specific interest in us as individuals.
How do we define god? Is he just a concept, then? An emotional state?
"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
