RE: Q about arguments for God's existence.
June 23, 2014 at 6:21 am
(This post was last modified: June 23, 2014 at 6:22 am by Tonus.)
(June 21, 2014 at 1:29 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: Thank you Creator for Huntington's disease and cancer!!! You're the best!!!It's an important point, though. When we're asked to observe the world around us and see god reflected in nature, why wouldn't we also study the scary and horrible things and wonder what they tell us about him? If nature was all waterfalls and infant's laughter, it might be more convincing as the product of a conscious and caring mind.
Then again, we're talking about a deity who uses something as pretty as a rainbow to remind us that he once slaughtered nearly every living thing on the planet because he was feeling a bit put off.
"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
