If we accept the premise that there is more to the universe than what we can discover or detect via natural means, what is the next step? What other options do we have, and how would we go about investigating those, or making discoveries? I'd like to see some details. Often these discussions never get beyond the claim that atheists are unwilling to look beyond the natural world. Well, okay... let's pretend we're willing to do that: now what?
"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