(April 17, 2014 at 9:32 pm)professor Wrote: We are not described as servants or slaves but sons and daughters.Somehow, I don't think that your kids occasionally refer to you as "THE LORD" or "MY LORD" or anything aside from "dad." The biblical writers didn't seem to be able to decide if god was the kindly, loving father or the jealous, angry tyrant. I guess he's really more like the struggling father who tends to hit the bottle just a bit too hard and is one mean fucking drunk.
"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
