(November 5, 2013 at 12:41 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: OK, Snowtracks, let's say for the sake of argument that you, Ray Comfort, Ken Ham, Kent Hovind, and all other creationists proved that evolution was false.
The thing is, we don't even have to stipulate that. If theists could produce god, then everything else simply falls into place. Trying to figure out if evolution is true or if the universe "came from nothing" would be superfluous if we knew without a doubt that there is a god. "What if they prove evolution false" doesn't advance the discussion, because they don't have to do that in order to "prove god true." You would think it would be easier to do the latter in any case. It would seem to be the simplest and most effective path.
"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
