RE: Is nihilism the logical extreme of atheism?
October 6, 2014 at 12:55 pm
(This post was last modified: October 6, 2014 at 12:56 pm by Tonus.)
(October 6, 2014 at 12:46 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: How so Tonus? Like with the law, you can relax if you know you're not breaking it. I'd be rightly worried if I'd broken the law, sure.But god isn't bound by law, and if any action he takes is good, he can rescind, rewrite, or simply ignore the rule-book. Without a standard of behavior to guide our expectations, there is no action that is beyond him. A human judge who ignores the facts and sentences you to punishment in spite of your innocence has acted wickedly and done wrong. God can ignore your devotion and loyalty and punish you and his action is good.
"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
