(June 2, 2014 at 5:35 pm)Lek Wrote: Firstly, I'm not sure that hell is eternal, but whether it is or isn't, I don't hate people who I think might be going there.I don't think you hate them either. I think your god does, if he is going to do such terrible things to them. I think that the people who then redirect the blame for this action upon the victims are being hateful, because to side with a torturer at the expense of his innocent victims is simply horrible.
"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
