RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
June 23, 2015 at 7:54 am
Faith in science is faith in a process of research that has been proven to work time and again. Because it is not faith in a person or idea, there is no concern that the failure of any person or idea should lessen that faith. Faith in god is faith in an idea (on an abstract level) or a specific person. The process involves targeted "research" that must lead to the conclusion, because failure would damage or even destroy the basis for that faith. It's like having faith in cooking versus faith in a supernatural chef who creates the most amazing meals from horse feathers and thin air. One of those exists no matter how bad your meals turn out. The other does not, and insisting that the roast in your oven magically appeared there and has "the faint aroma of horse feathers" won't change that fact.
"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