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In Defense of the Kalam
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RE: In Defense of the Kalam
March 6, 2014 at 10:14 am
(March 6, 2014 at 9:15 am)shep Wrote: The argument assumes we need a creator.
I asked before, but wouldn't "the big bang" fit the argument just as well as "god"? The argument simply indicates that something must have caused the universe to exist. Why wouldn't that something be "the big bang"? Or even "Marduk, from the corpse of Tiamat"?
"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."

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In Defense of the Kalam

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In Defense of the Kalam - by Avodaiah - March 4, 2014 at 8:15 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by BrianSoddingBoru4 - March 4, 2014 at 8:30 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by ShaMan - March 4, 2014 at 8:33 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Jackalope - March 4, 2014 at 8:42 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Angrboda - March 4, 2014 at 8:42 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Simon Moon - March 4, 2014 at 9:17 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Alex K - March 5, 2014 at 2:50 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by The Valkyrie - March 4, 2014 at 9:25 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Cinjin - March 4, 2014 at 10:16 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Esquilax - March 4, 2014 at 10:52 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Marsellus Wallace - March 4, 2014 at 11:45 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by max-greece - March 5, 2014 at 3:01 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Esquilax - March 5, 2014 at 3:41 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by FreeTony - March 5, 2014 at 5:50 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Cyberman - March 5, 2014 at 10:01 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Kayenneh - March 5, 2014 at 12:59 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by truthBtold - March 5, 2014 at 1:03 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Mudhammam - March 5, 2014 at 1:59 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Tonus - March 5, 2014 at 2:06 pm
In Defense of the Kalam - by Rampant.A.I. - March 5, 2014 at 2:31 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Avodaiah - March 5, 2014 at 5:21 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Mudhammam - March 5, 2014 at 6:23 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Esquilax - March 6, 2014 at 11:43 am
In Defense of the Kalam - by Rampant.A.I. - March 5, 2014 at 5:26 pm
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by shep - March 6, 2014 at 9:15 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Tonus - March 6, 2014 at 10:14 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Avodaiah - March 12, 2014 at 12:09 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Alex K - March 12, 2014 at 4:30 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Tonus - March 12, 2014 at 5:25 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Esquilax - March 12, 2014 at 5:47 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Alex K - March 12, 2014 at 6:27 am
RE: In Defense of the Kalam - by Minimalist - March 12, 2014 at 12:28 am

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