(September 5, 2014 at 1:10 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: It harks back to a time when god wasn't loving but a capricious god that would destroy your crops, kill your cattle or bring on pestilence if not appeased, when god was worshipped out of fear not love.Indeed. You learn to fear Jehovah, God of Armies. Not so for version 2.0, who got thrashed and hung on a cross. Jehovah of Armies would scrape you off the bottom of his sandals (unless you happened to have a chariot of iron, you fucking cheater). Jesus keeps warning you that some day... SOME DAY... you're gonna be sorry for laughing at him. It's just not the same.
"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
