Theistic evolution vs. Darwinism (Introduction)

by dhw, Thursday, June 06, 2013, 20:02 (3948 days ago) @ David Turell

dhw: I do not believe it either. But this is the agnostic's dilemma: ALL the explanations are just-so stories. Instead of "asking for design from self-designing intelligences", you ask for design from...a self-designed intelligence! What else is your God?-DAVID: Yes, our difference is your unwillingness to allow belief without absolute proof, which none of us will ever have, now or to the infinite future when the universe dissolves into heat death.-This is an unworthy rhetorical device. Your impossible "absolute" proof implies that there is SOME proof of God's existence, but of course there is none at all, just as there is no proof at all that chance can create life and consciousness, that energy can spontaneously become aware of itself, or that all phenomena can be explained in material terms. All these subjective conclusions depend 100% on inference. And so the difference between us is that you are willing to believe something for which there is NO proof, which I suggest is the essence of true faith.


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