(January 24, 2014 at 9:02 am)ThePinsir Wrote: I think the best way to argue this one is by using "God of the gaps". Just because we don't YET know how the universe was created doesn't mean it was magic.
How would you refute this guy?
You already did. God of the gaps. It's such a silly argument. It boils down to "just because this closet is empty doesn't mean there isn't something inside!!!"
Actually, that's exactly what it means...
"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
