(May 10, 2014 at 12:39 pm)Lek Wrote: Because God made us each individually and cares for us as individuals.Yet you believe that he provided us with a user guide that is so poorly-written that after thousands of years people are more divided than ever as to how to interpret it, but they all seem to agree that if you don't do as god commands, he will punish you for all of eternity. That simply doesn't jibe with the idea of someone who cares about us as individuals. You wouldn't ever even think of treating another person the way god threatens to treat humanity, yet you consider him to be the hallmark of loving kindness. It really is bizarre.
"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
