(September 11, 2014 at 12:09 pm)sswhateverlove Wrote: Atheists, how are you sure that any of the science is the truth? How can you tell?I'm typing this message on a computer whose design and workings are made possible regardless of the amount of understanding I have of the related industries. The chair I am sitting in, the desk I'm sitting in front of, the electricity that powers my home, the car I use to get around, the plane I fly in to get to faraway destinations, the medical care and medication that I use to get and feel better... all of those show the "truth" of any particular science. I could go on for quite a while, mentioning dozens --nay, hundreds-- of things that we all take for granted because they work regardless of how much we know about the underlying science.
How reliable and repeatable are claims based on religious faith? A ball-point pen will write just as well for a Christian as for a Muslim, and they both rely on science every day with such a fundamental level of faith that they don't even think about it. But ask them any faith-based question and lets see how well their answers align.
"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
