(May 21, 2013 at 12:55 pm)Drew_2013 Wrote: On what basis do you consider a Creator not being a possibility worth considering and what counter non-god explanation do you consider to be a much better explanation?
I don't believe in god, which is to say that I do not believe one exists. Having left religion and theistic belief behind, I have not found any compelling argument for the existence of one since then. The argument from design strikes me as just another gap. I have no counter explanation for the existence of the universe, and lacking one is not a compelling reason for me to believe in god. If the universe is the creation of a sentient being who will never make himself known, that's fine with me. Not knowing doesn't bother me.
"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