(November 19, 2014 at 10:34 am)Riketto Wrote: As far as i know about this Pascals wager theory is that it is all about consequences of what would happen in this or that case while my asking is what would you think or say if you are found to be wrong.That's the essence of Pascal's Wager (ie, what if you were wrong about god).
Is this so hard to understand?
"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