RE: Evolution Trumps Creationism
September 26, 2013 at 11:15 am
(This post was last modified: September 26, 2013 at 11:15 am by Tonus.)
Ask/Seek/Knock. It's from Luke 11, where Jesus teaches his disciples the Lord's Prayer.
Luke 11:9,10 Wrote:9 “So I say to you: Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. 10 For everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.Now, if you grew up worshiping god and finally realized that he wasn't real, and you point out that you lived by the words of Luke 11, your typical apologist will come to the conclusion that you must not have done it right. But the context of the verses above indicate that there's no trick to it. Ask and god will provide. Persist if you have to, but god is a loving father and will give to those who ask. You won't find any horseshit about how you have to ask a certain way, or you have to seek a certain way, or you have to knock a certain way, or any other flaming hoops and hedge mazes that you must traverse for god to answer your prayers.
"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