I wasn't making an argument, I was making fun of you.
As for your point to Stimbo, you do realize that if Stimbo had raised a child, the child would know that he was real, right? Therefore Stimbo would not need to convince his child of anything. And most parents would be willing to help a child in need if they were able to, even if the child did not ask for help. Neither of those applies to god, who never shows himself and doesn't offer help unless you "ask" in some arcane and complicated manner. Maybe instead of asking Stimbo if he "ever thought of that" you might start doing some thinking of your own.
As for your point to Stimbo, you do realize that if Stimbo had raised a child, the child would know that he was real, right? Therefore Stimbo would not need to convince his child of anything. And most parents would be willing to help a child in need if they were able to, even if the child did not ask for help. Neither of those applies to god, who never shows himself and doesn't offer help unless you "ask" in some arcane and complicated manner. Maybe instead of asking Stimbo if he "ever thought of that" you might start doing some thinking of your own.
"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
