(September 6, 2013 at 11:32 pm)Godschild Wrote: So you're saying you want others to do the work for you. That would not fly with your boss so why should it fly with God?
What, being religious is like a job to you?
I'm saying that I spent many, many years trying to prove that something was true, and finally realized that my task seemed impossible. But there are others who claim that it's quite possible. I am interested in whether or not they can prove the claim. If their response is to try to brush me off with "I won't do the work for you" then I think it's fair to assume that they cannot do it either, since that's a strange attitude to take with questions of such grand importance.
It seems to me that you're only one step removed from where I am, GC.
"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
