(July 29, 2014 at 4:26 pm)Statler Waldorf Wrote: Sure there is, God is just and God is good because God is the ultimate standard of justice and goodness. That’s a truth we reason from not reason to. Be honest, if God exists does it really matter whether or not his creatures think He is just or not? Are they not fallible?I think I understand what you mean here, but am not sure. I am assuming that this is a form of the 'might makes right' argument? No one can impose his will upon god, whereas god can impose his will on anyone, thus it is god's will that is sovereign. If god says that eating cheesecake on Thursday is forbidden, he has the muscle to back that command with action if he needs to. Whereas if I warn god against creating any new planets on Sunday afternoon, he can just laugh it off and dare me to stop him as he ramps up production of another solar system (and makes the universe fast-forward to Sunday afternoon just to be a bit of a brat about it).
Is that the sort of thing you are hinting at here?
"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
