(June 15, 2015 at 6:44 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: Like Polaris above, I too would like to know which arguments specifically the OP was referring to. I agree, there are a lot of illogical and petty "arguments" for the existence of God. It's a shame so many of us Christians do such a poor job explaining or even understanding why we believe what we believe.A shame, perhaps, but not really your fault; your source material allows for such wide and divergent interpretation that even many devout believers can't clearly explain what they believe or why they believe it. And people of the same faith (and sometimes even the same denomination) can come up with different explanations for many Biblical texts and moral lessons. If god could not explain it properly, there's no reason to expect you to understand it well enough to explain it to anyone else. And that should be reason to doubt its origins, IMO.
"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