(November 30, 2014 at 2:19 pm)Lek Wrote: There was one thing still keeping him from giving himself over to God. It was his love of his riches, which he proved by walking away once he heard Jesus' words. Jesus told him what he still needed to do, but his money was more important to him than God.The story tells us that the man had kept "all of the commandments since he was a boy." His wealth did not keep him from living a life in accordance with the law, so Jesus makes up a new rule on the spot. It is stunningly arbitrary and petty, especially from the same man who excused the extravagant waste of a woman who spent a fortune on perfume that she used to anoint his feet. On that occasion, he dismissed the needs of the poor: "you will always have the poor among you." How self-serving!
"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
