Originally posted by Zahlanzi
what do we know?
big bang? doesn't disprove god and it has flaws.
evolution? doesn't disprove god, supports my metaphor theory and it has flaws. (like all theories do).
so what do we know that would make us treat this as myth?
You are wrong because science has the tools to test this idea. The monotheists have made very definite claims about God and they have failed the test in lots of areas. These are two.
Does Big Bang disprove God? Well yes it does because if we did not have Big Bang or a similarly well tested model, then we would be obliged to accept the God hypothesis. The idea that this theory has flaws is just silly. It is a theory - and not an empty hypothesis - only because of the weight of support it has received in endless attempts to test it and prove it wrong. That is what science does - it does not prove things right, it tries to prove them wrong. What Big Bang does is to provide the basis for a complete description of the formation and continuing changes in the physical universe. It works staggeringly well.
Does evolution ... Yes it does - it destroys the Biblical account by demonstrating a superior model based on evidence and capable of making surprising, yet valid predictions such as the way a virus mutates. More specifically, Darwin loved the idea of Intelligent Design and was distracted for decades by finding more and more evidence against it. He had to abandon it. And of course, up to that point, the argument from design was a mainstay of religion.
So the claims of religion are falling by the wayside in the face of evidence. If a scientist could prove that the Big Bang was really something outside the laws of physics, that scientist would be a huge success and receive massive funding. There is every motive for a scientist to produce evidence favouring the miraculous. But that is just not happening. The God hypothesis - all the claims made for God - is being destroyed by the evidence.
In science and reason, what happens to a hypothesis that fails to make decent predictions, that makes predictions that simply do not stack up, is that it dies.