RE: Is It Hypocritical Of Me To Be Athiest?
October 9, 2013 at 6:06 am
(This post was last modified: October 9, 2013 at 6:07 am by Tonus.)
(October 8, 2013 at 3:17 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: And the fact we exist at all is some kind of unintentional accident/byproduct isn't that right? No it seems a bit unlikely to me everything considered. The universe clearly is some kind of precisely structured process with a clear beginning. It grew and developed over time, we and all living things (all flesh as the Bible would call it) are part of this very same process. This is something we actually know, we can see it, study it, it is factual and yes it perfectly well does fit with role of a creator God or supreme intelligence.
Ignorance is not a good reason to turn to god. Like so many theists, you have a faulty understanding of the universe and what has been discovered about it. What "we actually know, see and study" has not pointed to god at all. It has pointed to natural processes, and continues to do so. The only place you are able to insert god is in those constantly-shrinking gaps that science has yet to fill. But that isn't science, that's wishful thinking.
"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
