RE: If I were an Atheist
April 26, 2015 at 7:36 am
(This post was last modified: April 26, 2015 at 7:36 am by Tonus.)
(April 26, 2015 at 12:48 am)Drew_2013 Wrote: As I've written before, the notion there is no evidence, not one single fact that is simpatico or comports with the belief we owe our existence to a Creator is so imbedded into the thinking of atheists, so fundamental and core to atheist thought that most atheists will refuse to acknowledge there is evidence (which are simply facts in favor of a belief) that no argument will stop atheists from saying it. But I love a challenge.Perhaps your first challenge is to stop using that misrepresentation of the 'thinking of atheists,' since it allows you to dismiss arguments that might otherwise give you pause, and allows you to put forth poor arguments on the basis that their rejection is based on an ingrained bias instead of simply being a poor argument. You'll never be able to filter out good points from bad ones if you presume that our points are wrong before we even make them.
"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
