RE: Conclusive proof of God
October 4, 2014 at 3:30 pm
(This post was last modified: October 4, 2014 at 3:31 pm by Tonus.)
(October 4, 2014 at 1:03 pm)satsujin Wrote: Also, the topic now seems to be requiring proof for the existence of God. I have my own and dont pretend that it will convince others. But that is not what my question was: It was CAN there be proof of God's existence not WHAT is proof of God's existence.I offered my own thoughts on that a few pages back.
If you decide that god cannot be proven to exist and therefore the issue must be determined by faith (that is, belief regardless of proof) then the person who claims that god does not exist is indeed in the same boat as you are. He has used the very same method to come to the completely opposite conclusion. Doesn't that invalidate faith as a way of determining whether god does or does not exist?
"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
