(December 13, 2024 at 4:42 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote:(December 13, 2024 at 4:06 pm)Sheldon Wrote: a deity creating everything, then granting one species of evolved apes free will, then having no culpability for their actions.
An omnipotent god with an explicit and specific incompetence.
Or a very cruel and sadistic personality. God as described by many Christians is an absolute nightmare.
"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
