(April 29, 2014 at 9:37 pm)te1148 Wrote: It is circular reasoning, and I'm okay with that. I believe the Bible to be true, because I believe God to be true.I think this is an important thing to admit. I think a great majority of people who worship god do so because they accepted the claim that he exists without question, and have never dared to question it. Hence, any claim or argument that strengthens that viewpoint is readily accepted, and any that questions that viewpoint is quickly rejected. It cripples our ability to reason by inserting a variable that we would not accept under any other circumstance, and which even the theist refuses to accept when it comes to belief in any other god than the one he worships.
"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
