(October 6, 2014 at 9:38 pm)Jenny A Wrote:I read it as a "might makes right" type of argument. When we understand how 'right' is used in that phrase, we understand how 'god is good' works.(October 6, 2014 at 1:26 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: God didn't create good no. Good is what God has to be to be a creative singularity. What opposes good opposes God. And what is unjust etc, contradicts Gods nature. Hence we can know something of God.I don't think that follows. What is it that is inherently good about a creator?
"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
