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Originally Posted by Moonliner
In this case I used the word 'think' as a synonym for "speculate" rather than as a synonym for "believe" which is apparently how you took it.
Creating theories is what we (as a species) do it's how we discover and progress. Wow! When that pot gets hot it seems to create a lot of energy, I bet we could use that. Humm, that mold seems to be killing all the bacteria around it. I bet it could be used as a medicine. We postulate, we test, we make mistakes, we move on. Learning is not a linear process by any means. What's "fact" today, is often laughable tomorrow. That's science.
Also I am not damming all religions/belief systems, I'm just saying that using creation as proof of God is not a good argument, and from a larger point of view, that trying to prove the existence of god in any way shape or form goes against the fundamental tennet of faith.
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Yes, isn't that the "argument from ignorance?" If you can't explain it, it must be God. Well, we have a long history of attributing supernatural causes to the movement of flowers in tracking the sun, the fall of every sparrow, the movement of the planets - and with each new discovery, the "God of the Gaps" arguments get relegated to more remote and tiny places where they can't be disproved like all the others...