(December 30, 2014 at 11:42 pm)Lek Wrote: My God has prepared a home for us. All you've got is to live with all that same terrible stuff - who knows why - and to die. The universe itself is a monster. All this suffering and death for no reason at all. You can have it.And you're trusting the horrifying person who created it all to "prepare a home for" you. I don't think the story ends the way you expect it to.
"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