(January 28, 2015 at 2:04 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: I have noticed a new trend in the theists argument recently.This is helped by how open to interpretation books like the Bible are. "Gaps" arguments are just as easily applied to the Bible as they can be to anything else, because the Bible is so open to interpretation. If the details get sketchy, either dig in your heels or just fall back on magic.
The "this is why there is no evidence" argument.
The "god exists outside our reference". argument.
The "2 million people can travel tracelessly for 40 years" argument.
The "You can't find evidence for miracles because they leave no mark in nature being supernatural argument" argument.
"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