(November 7, 2013 at 7:15 am)GodsRevolt Wrote: God is the creator of all things. If he had chosen to create a universe where killing was moral, it would be so. To ask this question, the one you pose, is to put the creator of man on the same level as man. It is like comparing yourself to a stick figure that you drew. The stick figure will never be anything like the living and breathing and three dimensional you. It is two different plains of existence.
Would you agree that there are no absolute morals, then? That is to say, no action is intrinsically moral or immoral, it depends on whether the being who carried out or ordered the action can back his position with strength. God is so far above man that no one can thwart his will, therefore he can judge an act as being moral or immoral based on his ability to enforce his will and the inability of anyone else to stop him. In the same manner, there is no right and wrong, or good and bad. There is what god wills.
"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
