(February 19, 2014 at 2:40 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: It's wishful thinking if you don't believe God exists to begin with but you only believe God doesn't exist because in your own opinion which is not based on evidenceClose-- I don't believe that god exists and I base that belief on the lack of evidence. For example, the way that you go on about evidence without actually producing any, or the way you point to "100,000 years" of evidence that doesn't include, you know... ever actually demonstrating god.
And of course, your answer for not demonstrating god is that god cannot be demonstrated... but I'm supposed to have evidence for my belief???
"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