(May 4, 2014 at 10:23 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: I am sorry you feel that way. The golden rule speaks of treating others as you would have them treat you. If this is being followed you have nothing to be worried about.The concept behind the Golden Rule predates the Bible, and it's a poorly thought-out idea anyway, as it works best if everyone follows it. Otherwise, it's a great way for people who don't follow it to take advantage of those who do.
Don't harm those who do you no harm, and help those who deserve your help. A similarly simple yet far superior approach to the issue of how to get along with your fellow humans, and which can work just fine even if others decide not to follow it.
"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
