(October 1, 2013 at 8:39 pm)Drich Wrote: How evil are people? Evil enough for a righteous God to send them to Hell if they do not seek redemption for their sin.
Actually, many prominent Nazis became famous for deflecting blame by claiming that they were simply carrying out the orders of their superiors. That is to say, they relied on the moral judgments of those superiors and simply acted without questioning whether their orders were moral or not. In essence, they had elevated their superiors to godhood, where their moral pronouncements were above judgment. So when those superiors ordered them to kill and pillage and torture and destroy, they did so without any pangs of guilt.
It is reminiscent of Yahweh and the nation of Israel in the old testament.
"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
