(June 14, 2014 at 10:05 pm)Lek Wrote: Call it what you want, but if 9 out of 10 people throughout history believed in God, especially accomplished scientists, I'm going to give that a lot of weight - added to the fact that I experience God.And how many of those accomplished scientists managed to prove god exists, or do research that led later scientists to find that god exists? Using your reasoning, if 10 out of 10 scientists throughout history (including the 9 of 10 you claim believed in god) never found any traces of god, how much weight do you give that? Heck, much of the evidence they find works to disprove many Biblical tales or claims.
You would think that men who were under pressure to find god --either from their own desire to prove god, or from whatever church had sufficient power and influence at the time-- would have come up with something in all of that time. The best they seem to have come up with it is the occasional finding that creationist sites twist or pull out-of-context to try and scratch up a bit of "it could have been god" arguments from.
"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
