(June 13, 2015 at 9:20 am)Little Rik Wrote: But this is my believe whether you believe or not.Every belief has a basis. Communities and societies function because most of our beliefs have a common or explicable basis that we can either test or that we understand through experience. Religious/spiritual belief violates this by turning it on its side-- the basis can be anything and doesn't need to be proved, just stated. Not surprisingly, it is this spiritual belief system that is scattered and confused, so that throughout human history there have been hundreds of different and conflicting belief systems. To this day, they operate the same way and therefore there is no set of unified beliefs regarding gods or spirits or metaphysical or "intuitional" anything.
Go ahead and have all of the beliefs you want. But there's a reason that you (or any other person) are unable to convince even a majority of the people in the world that your beliefs are true. And you'll try to deflect this truth with more of the same-- beliefs that you can't get others to believe because "I said so" doesn't work very well in the long run.
"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
