(December 23, 2013 at 5:33 pm)savedwheat Wrote: Christianity has excelled from its earliest days because people think it's evil to kill people like Jesus was killed and the Apostles were killed,
...but not like the whole world minus eight people? Or nearly all of the inhabitants of the 'promised land'? Or any of the other countless people god either kills directly or orders his followers to kill? Why would early Christians find killing to be evil? To that point it was clearly their god's strong suit.
"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
