(November 18, 2013 at 1:17 pm)ronedee Wrote: Just food for thought. We need some different persepectives than the usually bon a faire around here.
That's a poor perspective, IMO. If every natural disaster managed to avoid destroying the homes and temples of people who prayed, then the correlation is such that it would be an undeniable effect and could easily be tested and confirmed (and in doing so, we could not only answer the question about god's existence, but also who he happens to favor). Do you believe that this is the case?
"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
