RE: Proving the Bible
May 8, 2014 at 2:12 pm
(This post was last modified: May 8, 2014 at 2:13 pm by Tonus.)
(May 8, 2014 at 2:08 pm)lordofgemini Wrote: The idea larval worm is fallacious. Why did it have to be a worm. Why did it even looked like that. Why was it even matter. If its matter where did it come from. The thing we take to be eternal is unlike anything.
My point about the larval worm was just to say that there may not have been a creative force directing the birth of the universe and its development into its present form. At least if we treat creation as a deliberate and purposeful act. Otherwise, gravity probably had a hand in the first creative act.
(May 8, 2014 at 2:08 pm)lordofgemini Wrote: Oh and God is as simple as He can be.I'm sure he is. But "simple" on his level is extraordinarily complex, if we are crediting him with creating the universe and everything in it.
"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
