(September 9, 2014 at 2:28 pm)Greatest I am Wrote: Why would a creator God have to threaten what he created with death?He wouldn't have to. If he chose to --with no one capable of challenging him-- he is free to be as nice or as horrible as he desires. It's what makes so many of the deities that people worship so terrifying: they seem unpredictable and given to emotional outbursts, paired with the capability to completely disconnect those emotions. That's how you end up with a god who claims to love and care and then condemns people to an eternity of suffering because they worked exactly the way he meant them to.
"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
