RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
August 7, 2014 at 8:01 am
(August 7, 2014 at 2:19 am)snowtracks Wrote: science provides the means (e.g., cosmology, biochemistry) to interpret nature, but at any given point in time, that interpretation could be faulty or incomplete.But that's just the argument from ignorance. 'We don't know, so my theory might be true, no matter how impossible or insane it sounds.' That's not the kind of thinking that got us this far; it's the kind of thinking we have had to debunk, time and again, in order to gain more knowledge and understanding. That anyone would continue to try to fill the gaps in our knowledge with the sort of silliness that has NEVER added to that knowledge is just crazy.
"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