(December 8, 2014 at 5:40 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: I find it odd how agnostic atheists see so much logic in staying neutral regarding God's existence but when it comes to the possibility of knowing he exists, outright deny as possible more often then not.That's how people deal with a great many things that we cannot disprove. How many people claim to be agnostic about the Tooth Fairy? Bigfoot? Zeus? Marduk? Brahma? Allah? Yahweh?
I live my life as if each of those do not exist, and believe that they do not. I cannot prove that any of them do not exist. I'm betting that most people who believe in one of those treat the rest exactly the same way I do, but draw a distinction when it comes to the one(s) they do believe, even though they seem to have as much trouble proving they do exist as I have proving they don't.
"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
