At 9/27/09 08:14 PM, InsertFunnyUserName wrote:
You could say the same thing about any theory and fill in the holes of that theory with whatever you want.
No you couldn't. That's not how theories work.
Whenever you think up a new theory (well at this point it would just be a hypothesis, not yet a theory), you must ALWAYS ask yourself: "What would prove me wrong?" If you can't answer that question, then your "theory" is void. It doesn't make any predictions. What would your theory explain, if every imaginable observation can be just be squeezed into it, using various ad hoc rationalizations?
For instance if we couldn't detect any background radiation when measuring, we would know there's something wrong with the big bang theory. If we found a fossilized rabbit, or even parts of one, dated to the pre-Cambrian era, then evolution would be completely blown out of the water.
You could say that the big bang was created by an image of Steven King's face and no one could disprove that.
No one would ever claim something like that.
You can't just say "Well, we can't find the answer to this question, so there can't be any more questions beyond this," albeit you can't say the opposite. That just doesn't make sense. If we can't answer one question, how do we know whether there are more questions beyond it that we need to answer? We don't.
So why bother trying to answer, or even ask those question that you don't even know can be asked? God doesn't explain anything, it just postpones the explanation further and launches us into an infinite regress of "if X made Y, then what made X?"
