(November 12, 2013 at 9:36 am)John V Wrote: It was that if you think this indicates that god is a selfish bastard, than most people are, too, as they do the same thing.
I think that people are largely driven by selfish motives. Our own survival urge is the stronger one, but we're also driven by smaller urges that we want to satisfy. I think we're wired that way and we developed the concept of unselfish behavior in order to build stable communities and societies.
"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
