RE: ☢The Theistic Response➼ to Atheists saying, "It Doesn't mean God Did it"
November 20, 2016 at 2:37 pm
(November 20, 2016 at 12:47 pm)The Joker Wrote: Thou shalt not lie-The Ninth Commandment
That's not what it says. It warns the Israelites not to "bear false witness against your neighbor." In other words, don't falsely accuse your fellow Israelite and/or do not commit perjury against him. Outside of that, they could lie to one another and they could bear false witness against non-Israelites. To take it any further than that, you would need to use reason and determine that lying is wrong and then apply that interpretation to something that god did not explicitly state. And you don't want to fuck up on the details when dealing with a maniac who can keep you alive for an eternity just so that he can make sure you suffer forever.
"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
