(June 24, 2014 at 6:02 am)fr0d0 Wrote: How and why the hell wouldn't you want to accept this best solution?It presumes that there is someone there to grant perfection. Putting aside all of the questions regarding why that someone would put us through all of this if he had it to grant, if that person will not reveal himself to all, then the best option is to understand that we are what we are and find ways to work with what we have in order to get the most out of it. All in all, humanity has done a pretty impressive job of that, and religion was one of the tools, but I think we're ready to move on from it. We have more knowledge and a better understanding of ourselves and our world, and religion is becoming more and more of a detriment to progress IMO.
"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
