RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
April 8, 2014 at 6:47 am
(April 8, 2014 at 12:05 am)snowtracks Wrote: 1.Whatever begins to exist has a cause.I will note that this clause is worded the way it is ("begins to exist") specifically to attempt to avoid the question of infinite regression. That is the only reason that the first clause is not described as "everything that exists has a cause." Because otherwise we ask what created god and the whole argument falls apart before you even get to the second statement. So you tack on a qualifier for no other reason than to try to cheat your way past a very thorny problem, wherein the most complex thing in the universe is the only thing that wasn't "designed."
It amazes me that you still use such a transparent and pathetic argument.
"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
