RE: A Serious Question For Theists
June 18, 2014 at 7:59 am
(This post was last modified: June 18, 2014 at 8:00 am by Tonus.)
(June 18, 2014 at 5:49 am)fr0d0 Wrote: You're being facetious. Written information is transference of ideas rather than direct experience. It's 2nd hand information to be accepted or denied.By this, are you referring specifically to the Bible, or to other experiences related by other people, such as visions of Christ or witnessing of miracles?
Claim: "God is"
Empiricist response: no empirical evidence
Rationalist response: consider evidence and weigh up possibilities.
"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
