(January 17, 2015 at 8:55 pm)professor Wrote: I can always count on you guys to lay the blame for the gross evil people do on God.
Yes and no. We don't actually blame anything on god, because god isn't there. But you present to us a belief that god created everything using an intellect so vast and complex that we cannot possibly grasp the immensity of it, yet you claim that the poor results of his efforts are not his fault. In any other facet of your life, poor workmanship is clearly the fault of the person who designed or built the item in question. But the greatest and most powerful designer/builder of all gets a pass, to the extent that you blame everyone but him for the mess he made.
I don't have to pretend that it's everyone else's fault in the hopes of avoiding god's wrath. I can straight up call him a shitty designer and a shitty builder.
"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
