(October 11, 2013 at 9:56 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: So you have nothing there at all and nothing happens to it and then the universe appears for no reason and life begins because it just does and then it all eventually becomes nothing again and that's it?
Quite possibly. The truth may not always be pleasant, but that doesn't make it any less true. If it's true that there is a god out there who will torment unbelievers forever, it doesn't matter that I find that to be an utterly contemptible and illogical concept. By the same token, if it turns out that there is no god and no grand and great "purpose" to the universe, then it doesn't matter that it might make anyone feel a bit empty to contemplate it.
"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
