(October 9, 2014 at 1:25 pm)Lek Wrote: People are quick to blame God, but won't take any blame upon themselves.That's because I didn't drown the whole world, or order the massacre of people whose land I wanted, or send wild animals to maul kids who made fun of a guy, or killed tens of thousands of people because their king (who I allowed to live) decided to take a census, or any other number of pretty terrible or downright insane things that the OT god did.
That's kind of how blame works. I understand that you want to change the rules in order not to piss off god, but that's not my baggage. So I can call him a prick.
"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