(December 17, 2016 at 12:25 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Well that's exactly right, Brian. The mantra is: "Your god is false but MY god is real."
And no. They can never see themselves.
What's notable is that the methods they use for coming to that conclusion in regards to other gods are the methods they reject when it comes to theirs.
But as you say, they don't recognize it when they're doing it.
"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
