(April 27, 2014 at 4:32 pm)The Reality Salesman Wrote: I didn't see where he abolishes all the barbarism. Maybe it's my poor ability to contort a believable alternative interpretation, but he seems to be endorsing all the crazy shit from the first part of the book.You can make the argument that he even doubles down. In the sermon on the mount, he implies that the law doesn't go far enough. Do not kill? Hah! Don't even call your brother a fool! Do not commit adultery? Hah! Lustful thoughts are enough to damn you! He ends this by telling the assembled listeners that they must be perfect, just like god is perfect. And considering the way god acts in the OT, it's impossible to figure out just what he means by "perfect"!
Basically, he came to Earth to tell everyone that they were fucked. And they thanked him for it. /facepalm
"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
