(October 22, 2014 at 4:21 pm)Lek Wrote:Actually, it's a classic example of the "mysterious ways" excuse. If a theist can't explain the actions of his god, it's one of the fall-back positions, along with "everything god does is good" and "who are you to challenge god" and any other explanation that is a euphemism for 'I don't get it, either, but I'm afraid of him so I'll just nod my head and smile.'(October 22, 2014 at 4:16 pm)Tonus Wrote: There is no smart way to explain that. Just roll your eyes and get away from that person in case his stupidity is contagious.Seems pretty simple to me. Like the child, we see God's actions and interpret them as something terrible, but the end result leads to salvation for the human race. The whole bible story leads to that final act of salvation. That's what it's all about.
"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
