(March 31, 2014 at 9:59 pm)Minimalist Wrote:Quote:He knew lucifer would rebel.That makes god something of a schmuck, doesn't it?
I dunno, I kinda like that version of god. We could hang out. He's sitting there thinking "so I made all of this shit and it's good, it all works perfectly. Fuck me, that's no fun at all! How can I make this entertaining? Oh wait, I know! I'll make them turn against me and blame it on free will! But first I need to create some weed and some alcohol..."
"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
