(June 19, 2014 at 3:26 pm)Lek Wrote: What I'm saying is that if a christian commits an atrocity, even though he's a true christian, if he's is acting counter to the teachings of Jesus, then you can't blame christianity for the act. The person is acting on his own accord, not according to the teachings of Christ.Putting aside the notion that "according to the teachings of Christ" is open to interpretation, that is an awfully convenient approach to take. It sounds to me that you are saying that if Christians do terrible things, that shouldn't reflect badly on Christianity. Is that really your point of view, that we cannot judge an organization by the way its members behave?
"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
