(April 4, 2014 at 4:31 pm)tor Wrote: In my previous topic I was complaining about hearing same arguments billion times. They are spoken in a different way but are still about the same thing.I think that as our knowledge and understanding of the universe grow, religious arguments will move further and further into the philosophical and metaphysical realms, where they can carry on for a while longer, exploiting the dwindling number of gaps that they can squeeze a deity into. I am not so sure anymore that we'll see the end of such arguments for a very long time, as religious belief may be a coping mechanism of some kind. I don't see humans abandoning many of the other ways in which we divide ourselves into "warring" groups (sports fanaticism, nationalism, racism, sexism, etc).
Do you think we will ever hear new arguments? Where will they come from? Or we will hear same arguments for another 10000 years?
"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
