(July 1, 2014 at 6:54 pm)Lek Wrote: If we were making up a story about God, how many people would make him become a man, be humiliated, and be executed as a criminal?The concept of the noble hero is a very popular one. To this day, people tend to highly favor any person who stands out for one reason (riches, athletic prowess, political success, etc) yet remains modest or humble. It was one of the defining characteristics of Superman, who was always a very popular character. Gods are the ultimate super-hero, so it's no surprise that people would write stories about how they allowed themselves to be humbled... right before returning to their sky castle in their position as the most powerful being to ever exist, ready to return in his invincible spirit form to deal out justice to those who wronged him.
How humiliated does he sound now?
"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
