I admit that the whole "material/immaterial" thing confuses me. How does someone get from "concepts, ideas, feelings and emotions are immaterial" to "therefore there exists an immaterial universe/dimension and in that universe/dimension there is a magnificent being of incomparable power who interacts with our universe/dimension both physically and metaphysically, both naturally and supernaturally"? I cannot "touch" math, therefore god exists? What am I missing?
"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
