(August 13, 2014 at 10:17 am)Clueless Morgan Wrote: I don't know, Esq took a pretty good stab at it:I think the point that he (and Sam Harris) is making is that "mysterious ways" should not prevent an atheist from judging a god's actions. I think it's the difference between "I don't know why god did that" and the follow-up "but I trust he had a good reason."
http://atheistforums.org/thread-27204-po...#pid702580
"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
