(July 23, 2013 at 2:44 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Why is necessary to have evidence for the existence of God?
That depends on the nature of the god in question. If it's a powerful creator who made everything and then left the universe to its own devices, it isn't necessary at all. If it's a powerful creator who made everything then involved himself in the development of humanity for a short time and has determined to grant amazing rewards or truly horrifying punishments depending on behavior, then he owes humanity a lot more than a poorly written book and going AWOL for two thousand years.
Unless he's an irredeemably sadistic and wicked person, in which case it's also unnecessary.
"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
