(March 21, 2014 at 3:36 am)xr34p3rx Wrote: so i got confronted with this claim about proving gods existence with logic.When god refuses to show up, that's what you have to fall back on: reasons why he might be hiding from us, as opposed to simply not being there at all.
"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