(May 15, 2015 at 4:12 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: He would most likely demonstrate the atheist worldview cannot account for the entirety of our reality, and therefore anyone claiming to be an atheist is doing so from a position that is not consistent with reality (see Van Til's TAG).I don't think he can actually demonstrate that. He'd have to prove that reality requires a god. The best attempts at that seem to be either a gaps argument or an argument from design, and neither of those is sufficient.
"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
