RE: Garden of Eden was a setup...
November 29, 2014 at 7:15 pm
(This post was last modified: November 29, 2014 at 7:15 pm by Tonus.)
So god is like a teacher who hands out a test to the first two students who enter the classroom. When those two students fail the test, the teacher flunks the rest of the class before they even know that there would be a test. This is apparently a completely fair and benevolent way to act.
"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
