(March 5, 2014 at 8:13 am)enrico Wrote: Don't you remember my post ......... One thing that an atheist will never understand is that God is within and not external so the evidence can only come from within........and you answer?......On the contrary, most atheists understand this point very clearly.And I repeat: atheists understand very clearly that god is "within and not external." That, in other words, he is exactly what each believer wants for him to be, because he comes from within and not from without.
So the question is......what atheists understand very clearly?
Quote:I only believe those who are able to reduce the distance that separate the microcosm (humans) from the macrocosm (God) which can be done in different way.Yes, I get that. And it's exactly what I expect, as an atheist. That god becomes more clear to us the more we internalize him. In that sense I do think we all believe in "god." I see him in the mirror every morning.
"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
