(July 1, 2014 at 9:30 am)ronedee Wrote: No! He is just supposed to hand us everything! Spoon feed us for eternity!Jacob was referring to the suffering of innocents all around the world, versus the convenience of people who pat god on the back for their good luck. Is it really "spoon feeding" for god to make it so children around the world don't suffer and die by the millions every year? Do you consider it "spoon feeding" whenever you believe that god stepped in to answer your prayers, or those of other believers who asked for anything less pressing than "I don't want to die of disease or starvation today"?
"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
