(November 11, 2016 at 10:56 am)Little Rik Wrote: Please Ton don't be afraid of telling me how your system would work.Didn't I already explain it? If I am a god, then I can be proactive and make sure that harm does not befall the innocent or undeserving. Then I do not have to wait until after things go wrong so that I can punish additional people in order to achieve an utterly unsatisfying "balance."
It's not difficult to imagine a better system than one where anything can happen to anyone and we comfort ourselves by accepting a poor solution because it's a slightly better option than 'shit happens.' Are you saying that if you were a god you would prefer that system, instead of one where you can make everyone as happy as possible? How cruel and demented are you, Rik?
"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
