(February 21, 2014 at 2:21 am)Godschild Wrote: No one can completely understand the Trinity, our minds are to small to understand a being such as God. If we could completely understand it then God would not be so great, now would He.Being incomprehensible is not an indication of greatness. Is god too complicated for his creation to possibly understand (in other words, is he unable to make us capable of doing so) or has god deliberately made us just dumb enough that we cannot understand him?
"We can't understand god" is another way of saying that he works in strange and mysterious ways. It means that there are things he does that we cannot make sense of. The theist needs for there to be an explanation in order to maintain the coherence of his belief system, so he shrugs his shoulders and decides it's not for us to know. This is similar to the efforts to relocate him to a metaphysical dimension where he cannot be detected.
"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
