(September 16, 2014 at 7:50 pm)Beccs Wrote: But what if she rejuvenates into a 20 year old hot lesbian?That would be proof that you were dealing with Yahweh.
As for the OP: I think the problem is that many people are wondering what it would take for me to believe in THEIR god. And if their god really did exist, then it would mean that everything that THEY believed --outside of the fact that he does exist-- would be utterly and completely wrong. And that would be good, because most of the gods that people have worshiped are horrible monsters who can do terrifying shit to you for apparently no reason at all.
I'm pretty convinced that YOUR god --the one that wrote such a sloppy book, who has left you hanging for centuries now, who hasn't lifted a finger to solve the problems that are his fault, who blames YOU for the problems that are HIS fault, who couldn't be bothered to write his own book, who couldn't bother to inspire guys to write a half-decent book, who pranced among the proles for centuries then hid away-- doesn't exist. If there's another one out there, I hope she's not the sort who thinks that smudges on a window are a good way to tell us she's there, and gives us some better clues to her existence.
"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
