(September 25, 2014 at 4:14 pm)Rhythm Wrote: Ask those who propose it, they're likely to have a specific thing in mind.My experience is that they think that have a pretty specific definition in mind, but they've never really defined god. When they attempt it, they are very likely to come up with something surprisingly different from their fellow believers. Gods work best when they simply reflect the values of their followers, who insist that it's really the other way around.
Now that I think about it, we haven't had many theists make a genuine attempt at defining god here. Aside from implying that he can't be defined, anyway.
"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
