RE: God Just Changed His Mind (from Evil to Good)
April 4, 2015 at 4:56 pm
(This post was last modified: April 4, 2015 at 4:57 pm by Tonus.)
(April 4, 2015 at 10:59 am)Riketto Wrote: Ok. let us come back to your original question then.It wasn't a question. A non-existent god will not care about me, and it's a waste of my time to care about him.
If god is so intent on hiding from me that he appears to not exist, I am content to treat him as he desires. If he wants to have a chat, he knows where I am.
The nonsense about materialism and spiritualism would not stop god from tapping me on the shoulder and saying "hello." As I have already pointed out, if I need to believe in order to believe, then belief is useless. Making excuses for why god won't just show himself does little to convince me that he is real. Come up with something better than explanations for how limited god is, because those simply don't work. At best, they make him seem like a coward.
"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
