(April 22, 2014 at 5:56 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: This seems to be a common reply to those who reject God and don't have an answer to perplexing questions. "We don't yet but we are working on it." The problem is that the answer is, "God." Because some don't like that answer they keep searching in vain.And yet, every time we have answered one of those perplexing questions, the answer has not been "god." It is the people who said "we don't know yet, but we are working on it" who found many of those answers, as opposed to the people who decided that god must have done it and that to continue to search was in vain.
It seems to me that if there is one search that has been in vain, it is the search for god, who is always jussssst about to appear on the scene and show us what we've been missing, but never actually ever arrives.
"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
