(October 7, 2014 at 2:18 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: The singularity is perfectly 'good'. It is functional in that it brings about a universe. God, having produced said singularity, has to be superior to it (see Aquinas). So Good is morally superior to the universe, and needs to be perfectly good.Doesn't that only mean that he needed to be good enough? We don't know if this is the best possible universe that could have been made, after all. Maybe his older brother Wehyah (their parents were practical jokers) created a universe where all of the planets sustain life and no one ever sinned. Wehyah might need to be perfect to get that particular recipe right, and maybe the reason we never see god is because he's in the middle of receiving a 20,000-year nuggie from his big bro.
"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
