RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
April 4, 2014 at 12:13 pm
(April 4, 2014 at 6:37 am)Esquilax Wrote: I'm becoming more and more aware of how true this is, and it makes me sad. Having never been a christian myself, it's hard to access that mindset that prizes faith at all, here.Rationalization. It's something we do all the time, but usually on a much smaller and less noticeable scale. Religious belief usually tries to encompass everything about us and the world around us, hence the attempts to stretch the related rationalizations well beyond the point where a sane person would stop.
"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
