To a person whose morals come down to "what does god command" the statement by that creationist makes perfect sense. Without god there to tell you not to do something, you have full freedom to do it.
Now, if this guy can explain why any action is right or wrong aside from "god said so" then he's doing Christianity all wrong, but he's also undermining his claim that without god we could not determine right or wrong. He can't have it both ways. Either he has no personal concept of right and wrong and can only function because god gave him a list of "dos and don'ts" or he does have a personal concept of right and wrong and doesn't need the Bible in order to develop a working moral framework.
Now, if this guy can explain why any action is right or wrong aside from "god said so" then he's doing Christianity all wrong, but he's also undermining his claim that without god we could not determine right or wrong. He can't have it both ways. Either he has no personal concept of right and wrong and can only function because god gave him a list of "dos and don'ts" or he does have a personal concept of right and wrong and doesn't need the Bible in order to develop a working moral framework.
"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
