(October 11, 2013 at 8:36 pm)HUMAN BRAIN Wrote: but what about the effects that may not be detected by us...??What about them? How do we quantify (or even qualify) "effects" that we cannot detect?
I can't help but notice that for many theists there is no longer a question of demonstrating god. It has come down to "how do you know he isn't out there, wearing his inviso-suit and hiding in the Undetectable Dimension of Undetectability? You can't prove that he isn't!!!"
I'm not concerned with the things that I cannot detect and therefore cannot prove. I'm interested in the things that you can demonstrate in a convincing manner. Or I would be, if you were making an attempt.
"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
