(November 10, 2014 at 8:25 pm)snowtracks Wrote: René Descartes reasoned that the 5 senses are unreliable - 'Knowledge of the nature of reality derives from ideas of the intellect, not the senses. 'Is that your claim, then-- that god is only undetectable "to the five senses"? Because if so, then you are saying that there is a way to detect him. Scientists seek out ways to detect any phenomena for which they have a hypothesis, so that others may test the hypothesis and learn more. Then they might make additional observations and discoveries, and possibly establish some facts from which they can build a theory.
On the other hand, if what you are saying is that he is undetectable except for your imagination well... we knew that.
"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
