(September 22, 2014 at 2:44 pm)RobbyPants Wrote: Personally, I'd say #4 is all you need. At the end of the day, you don't need to reject an undefined number of god claims; you can simply ignore them until someone brings something worth considering to the table.Indeed, I'd argue that the order is backwards. With a compelling or undeniable case for the existence of a god, any questions about whether he can/cannot exist are moot.
"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
