(February 21, 2015 at 10:34 am)Riketto Wrote: You presume that an hypothetical God hide from us.Not necessarily; a hypothetical god can be as rational or crazy as you want him to be... but theists are not talking about hypothetical gods, they are talking about beings that they are convinced are real. When you are talking about a real god, and describe her in ways that don't make sense --such as making pathetic excuses about why it won't show itself to me-- that doesn't impress me. Please stop trying to explain to me why god works so hard to act as if he doesn't exist; that's the stuff you are supposed to tell yourself so that you can hang onto the belief system you cannot or will not let go. That doesn't work to convince me. I already know she hasn't showed up. Saying that it's exactly what he intended to do only confirms the part I know, not the part you claim to know.
Clear?
"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