Cephus wrote:Mankind used to believe the Earth was flat and the sun rotated around the Earth.
The typical objection. Already dismissed.
Quote:It's only a matter of time before man gives up the silly God notion as well (and Europe is well on its way, the US is rapidly catching up.)
Faulty comparison. Our understanding of the
physical shape, location and movement of the earth evolves with new
empirical data. And these discrete pieces of observational information are placed in larger theoretical frameworks. These involve large amounts of speculation, and are always in flux. So much for the "certainty" of science. I wonder if, one day, in the 27th century, the latest scientific theory will claim that, after all, the earth was indeed in the center of the universe... Can anybody be confident that this will never happen? :wink:
In any case, even you will notice that natural theology (not to speak of the
belief in God) belongs in a totally different category. Since natural theology is not empirically grounded in the way geocentrism or heliocentrism were (theories that were contingent on
new physical observations), natural theology (for example, theories of intelligent design) cannot be disproved or discarded in that way either. If anything, new scientific discoveries tend to support natural theology.
In short, to claim that the notion of a creator (or actual religious faith) will be "discarded" following a process comparable to what happened in astronomy is just another piece of your BS.
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