(May 10, 2014 at 5:54 pm)Lek Wrote: That is true. Faith is a spiritual thing. We do have to respond to God's call in order to believe. Just reading all the documents from various religions and then deciding which sounds more like the truth doesn't work.If it's that simple, then all of the gods currently being worshiped by people around the world exist. Otherwise, you would need to believe that only the call of your god was legit. And if that's the case, then you're only one step away from being an atheist.
"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
