(April 11, 2013 at 2:24 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: Beats me. It's either that or 'neo-atheists' deny the existence of bad developments or affirm progress is overwhelmingly good with little bad.
That sounds suspiciously like the argument that everything that god does is good/moral/right by definition, even if it's something we'd otherwise categorize as wicked.
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
