RE: Attn: Theists - What would it take to prove you wrong?
August 28, 2013 at 6:16 am
(This post was last modified: August 28, 2013 at 6:17 am by Tonus.)
(August 27, 2013 at 5:40 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: Doesn't exist in a tangibly defined state as an object with any properties or dimensions, anything you can see or measure.
You speak of logical deduction while trying to convince us of the existence of a being that does not exist in any form we can detect, who lives in some different dimension, who reaches through some undefined and equally undetectable barrier to interact with our universe and who is "a contradiction."
When all of your claims are illogical, calling them logical does not magically make them so. Repeating a flat assertion with no basis does not constitute an explanation. The god you have described is not, as far as I am aware, described in any religious text. You have added properties to this god in order to make him fit into a universe that is becoming less and less hospitable to the notion of a god. You've shunted him off into a whole other reality from which he cautiously peeks out from time to time, when he's sure the cameras aren't rolling.
"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
