(April 11, 2014 at 4:17 pm)Heywood Wrote: Is that all you atheists have is super determinism or is there something else that I am missing?I don't really think about it. What led me away from theism was not ever finding god. Posts like your OP sound to me as if you are saying that god must exist because you cannot fathom a universe where he does not. That seems, to me, to approach the issue from the wrong end. I suppose that some day it might be shown that the universe cannot exist without god, and that therefore god has to exist. I think he could make it a lot easier on everyone by just showing up.
"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
