(June 23, 2013 at 5:42 am)Ryantology Wrote: It is becomingi clear to me that moral relativism is every bit as real to Christians as it is to us. To a Christian (especially the Waldorfs and fraudos of the world) there is no such thing as a moral act or an immoral act; whether an action is good or evil depends entirely upon who is doing it.
I think the idea is that there are two standards. God's standard for himself, and his standard for mankind. They aren't the same: god is a magnificent and powerful being who is far beyond the comprehension of men. We don't think twice about swatting a fly, after all. It boils down to a might-makes-right argument.
To me, this indicates that there are no absolute or objective morals, at least for humanity. In the Bible, there was a time when it was moral to kill a man who performed physical labor on the Sabbath, or who killed another person accidentally. Today, a Christian would not consider those to be moral acts. God's acts are always moral because there is no one who could demand an accounting from him. A dust mite never asked me to explain myself to its satisfaction.
"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
