RE: Any Theists on AF, I Challenge You to a Debate on the Existence of God
December 29, 2014 at 10:53 am
It can, depending on how you construct your reality. If lightning and thunder are the only thing you need to experience in order to believe in Thor, then you can believe in Thor. If the legends tell that he revealed himself to men, it will either negatively affect your belief, or may even serve to strengthen it if you come up with a good enough rationalization. From there, you simply need to tweak your reality to fit in an ever-present Thor who nonetheless is never around.
"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
