(April 3, 2014 at 12:26 pm)Thunder Cunt Wrote: I've seen a lot of love (God) here...If we're made in his image, then we must accept that he's also an asshole. If he personifies love, he must personify being an asshole. Think about it, if you were writing a book about the most powerful person in the universe --and someone who has shown himself willing to do some really really nasty things to people he doesn't like-- how are you going to describe him? I think the gospel writers turned in their manuscript to their editors and the discussion went as follows:
a lot of assholes as well :p
Editor: Love? Really? You think he "is" love?
Writer: You want to change it?
Editor: *thinks for a moment*
Editor: No, no! Love is fine, let's tell everyone that he "is love!"
Editor: *sweats profusely*
"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
