(March 11, 2014 at 10:53 am)Fromper Wrote: Yup. I can't believe so many atheists here are playing this guy's game by actually answering the loaded question.Ehh, we get lots of loaded questions. I think that when it comes to god's existence we're down to bad philosophy and loaded questions. I don't mind taking the question at face value and thinking about an answer, as I don't see the harm in it. Forming a position on it and reading that of the others can help me to learn something or to see things a bit differently or to develop my understanding about a topic a bit further.
"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
