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Why would you want to believe in god?

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Why would you want to believe in god?
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RE: Why would you want to believe in god?
July 1, 2015 at 3:13 pm
(June 29, 2015 at 4:59 pm)Spooky Wrote: What keeps an otherwise intelligent adult believing in the supernatural?

Narrative.
"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
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Why would you want to believe in god?

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Why would you want to believe in god? - by Spooky - June 29, 2015 at 4:59 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Longhorn - June 29, 2015 at 5:06 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Spooky - June 29, 2015 at 5:09 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Longhorn - June 29, 2015 at 5:26 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Metis - June 29, 2015 at 5:12 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by brewer - June 29, 2015 at 5:47 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Nope - July 1, 2015 at 8:13 am
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Pyrrho - July 1, 2015 at 11:13 am
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Tonus - July 1, 2015 at 3:13 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Pizza - July 1, 2015 at 4:22 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by comet - July 2, 2015 at 8:49 pm
Why would you want to believe in god? - by KUSA - July 2, 2015 at 10:50 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by bennyboy - July 2, 2015 at 11:02 pm
RE: Why would you want to believe in god? - by Spooky - July 3, 2015 at 4:38 pm

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