(December 29, 2014 at 7:11 am)W.Smith Wrote: or for someone to say there cannot be a God because we cannot prove the existence of such a God... are equally unacceptable!I would not say that there cannot be a god, nor would I say that we cannot prove the existence of a god. Humans have theorized and detected neutrinos-- particles so small (trillions of times smaller than an atom) and so ethereal (they pass through solid objects) that their existed was only hypothesized in order to solve the problem of where most of the energy from a supernova went. If we can detect something like that, I don't see why we couldn't detect god if she was there.
And of course, god could make the point moot by actually showing up, as some of his adherents have been warning us will happen any minute now... for the past thousand+ years.
"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
