(May 14, 2013 at 10:45 am)mo66 Wrote: That's not true.Of course it isn't true, that nonsensical tyrant doesn't exist. My point is that those who assert that god is incapable of doing wrong, even though he does things like command his followers to murder and rape, are describing a merciless and capricious being... that they worship.
"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
