(May 18, 2015 at 10:41 am)Little Rik Wrote: Sorry Ton but you are wrong once again when you say.......which leave absolutely no trace.What you are saying is "it does leave a trace, but only I can see it-- trust me!" That is so useless as to be no trace at all. And once again, you are going back to the idea that god won't show himself unless I 'let' him. A god like that is equally useless. And on top of that you go right back to the idea that you will only find this evidence if you first convince yourself it's there. Doesn't any of this leave you at least a bit suspicious about the qualities of this god, or spirit, or "science"? That the only way to interact with any of them is to pretend that they exist?
It certainly leave more that a trace but only in the consciousness of those who practice this science.
"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
