(January 1, 2015 at 7:49 pm)lifesagift Wrote: by that I mean, I have no belief in any god, but so many people do believe.... so why does god, all powerful, let me not believe?That's a completely different question than the thread title led me to expect. "How powerful is god" could be a fun exercise in the way kids like to try and figure out if the Hulk is stronger than Superman. On the other hand, "why won't god let me believe" has entertainment value if theists take the question seriously and try to give an honest answer, because you can be sure that the answers will be all over the map and in some cases just downright hysterical.
So, uh... carry on.
"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
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