(January 20, 2015 at 9:26 pm)Rhythm Wrote: The author is trying to impose a false dichotomy that would be convenient to his argument by means of pitching straw. Done.That was my impression as well. When someone starts off with "atheists use this fact to support atheism" you realize that he's gone off the rails before he even began.
Then again, this is a common theist approach these days, to try and "disprove atheism." Hey, here's a simple way to disprove atheism: GET GOD TO SHOW UP. What's that? You can't? Oh, okay. Carry on "disproving atheism" then.
"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
