(October 1, 2014 at 12:13 pm)Lek Wrote: If we're dealing with God, we're dealing with a being who doesn't always act according to our understanding of how things are supposed to be.Why not give us the ability to understand how things are supposed to be? This cannot possibly be outside of god's capabilities. Nor does he have any reason to hide anything from humanity-- they cannot bring him to account for it. So the notion that he works in ways that defy logic and reason because he has differing standards of logic and reason (the "mysterious ways" idea) doesn't make sense.
"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
