(August 9, 2013 at 3:30 pm)Locke Wrote: In that spirit, I may not reply to many of the posts in response to this. After all, you just said you thought our responses would be interesting. I don't mean to proselytize, nor do I mean to quarrel. However, if you want to talk then inbox me or, more preferably, email me.
I think that was an excellent post; it can be pretty difficult to figure out the particular beliefs/approach or worldview of a person just from their particular stance on belief/religion. You seem to have covered all of the bases on how you approach god and belief and laid it out in a clear manner. I do hope you are willing to discuss the individual points here in the forums, not everyone is seeking a quarrel and the nice thing about internet forums is that you don't have to engage anyone you don't want to.
It is a heck of a lot to cover in one topic, though, so I hope you will find time to discuss the individual points as they come up in other discussions (I think we've discussed all of them at some point or other, and many of them come up pretty regularly as topics).
"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
