(August 12, 2014 at 9:22 am)Drich Wrote: God answered your prayer.That's kind of what I was referring to. If it works, then god. If it doesn't work, then god. Just fit the explanation to the results, and you confirm the results. But without a way to verify it for all to see, anyone can create an explanation that is self-serving. The explanation that there is no god, and that you find whatever you want to find, works just as well.
Drich Wrote:God is simple not in the business of revealing Himself to us on our terms.Why not? Why would the pre-eminent power in the universe, a being of indescribable strength and unimaginable greatness, be so petty and fickle about letting us know he's there? Especially when he had no issues with revealing himself to people in the past, and making his presence very clear.
I don't understand how it would be ruinous to a person's faith for god to show himself. Wouldn't we be more likely to trust in god if we knew for certain that he exists? Isn't the idea that one day god will reward the faithful by allowing them into his presence? What's so wrong about showing up early?
"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
