(June 18, 2015 at 1:56 am)onmytablet512 Wrote: It seems we once again have a massive amount of replies that basically relate to the fact that because there is no proof of God, he must not exist.
Apply this to any and every other god or mythical or legendary creature, or even stuff like alien races or your child's imaginary friend, and suddenly that approach is perfectly reasonable and easy to understand. Apply it to your god, and suddenly it's a fallacious attempt to dismiss the truth of the matter. Figure out why you make that exception, and you might see where the problem is.
"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
