RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
March 26, 2014 at 9:33 am
(March 25, 2014 at 12:11 am)snowtracks Wrote: belief in science and God aren't mutually exclusive.No, but your acceptance of what we learn through the application of the scientific method is dependent on whether or not it conflicts with what we thought we knew through the application of the "god told the high priest in a dream" method. You accept science because you rely on it every day in ways that are tangible, and you reject it wherever it conflicts with your interpretation of an ancient book written at a time when "technology" meant rubbing camel shit on a wound to "treat" it.
"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
