(April 13, 2014 at 3:02 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: God will never be out of style.Well, at least you seem to recognize that he's a fad.
Revelation777 Wrote:Where did you get that definition of sin? If you don't believe in a God, then how can you define morality? Who defines what is right or wrong?Individuals do. Communities do. Societies do. Governments. Nations.
Humans.
How do you think religious believers can find god to be moral or good, without first having determined a set of standards by which to judge? Many parents will teach their children proper behavior by explaining the possible consequences of their actions. Other parents will fall back on the lazy "because I said so" approach. Which do you think is more effective? And did you realize that the latter approach is the "Biblical" one?
"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
