(October 21, 2014 at 11:13 pm)Christian Wrote: Oh, so its the-researcher-said-that-he-did-experiments-and-observations-so-it-must-be-true fallacy.I think I see the problem here. So long as you can equate the scientific method with "it says so in this ancient book" you can pretend that atheists are just as befuddled as Christians. But we don't just get "told" by scientists and researchers. The world runs on technologies that require a lot more than some researcher making stuff up, and humanity has accomplished things that wouldn't work if we were just trusting what some researcher said in a journal.
Your book says the world is a flat circle with the sky stretched over it like a tent. The "researchers" said differently. Which one do you believe today?
"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
