(March 15, 2014 at 12:06 am)Huggy74 Wrote:If he is a capricious and insecure monster, then defying him is likely not to be treated any different than sucking up to him.(March 14, 2014 at 11:00 pm)Aral Gamelon Wrote: Your god is a capricious, insecure monster.let's say this is true for the sake of argument. Explain how defying him is going to work out for you?
"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