RE: The simple truth
February 21, 2014 at 9:05 am
(This post was last modified: February 21, 2014 at 9:05 am by Tonus.)
Christians only really have one moral and one immoral behavior to consider: If god says it is moral, then it is. If he says it is immoral, then it is. Aside from that, you are on your own. Hence, those Christians who display good or positive qualities would do so without god, because they already do. The reverse also applies. Which is why their fear that without god we would become lawless animals is unfounded.
"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
