(August 2, 2013 at 8:51 pm)Golbez Wrote: Atheists know what would convince them that God is real.
If Angela Bassett offered to have my babies, I'd believe that god is real.
When I was a believer, I honestly could not fathom a scenario in which I would have accepted that god did not exist. Remember that for many theists, god exists outside of our ability to perceive him directly and therefore proof or evidence is a very personal thing, and it's acceptable to have only direct personal proof of god that cannot be verified by anyone but yourself. To get through that shell required a lot of small things that chipped away at it, not one bombshell that blew my whole worldview apart.
"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
