(October 17, 2013 at 7:50 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: A fictional setting where God doesn't exist? I suppose. Though you would have to ask where all these extra dimensions and all this stuff in general came from in the first place.
From the writer's imagination, of course. In a fictional setting the background details can be glossed over unless they're vital to the story somehow. It's like any other fictional, mythological work.
"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
