RE: 'Drich, which of the millions of different christian denominations goes to Heaven?'
January 21, 2015 at 11:57 am
(January 21, 2015 at 11:40 am)Drich Wrote:That's a non-sequitur. This is like your dad, who has a fleet of cars and a bunch of chauffeurs on the payroll, refusing to give you a ride to the hospital and blaming your death on the slow response by emergency services.(January 21, 2015 at 9:45 am)Tonus Wrote: So god works through "stewards" who prove to be generally inefficient or unmotivated except in a few isolated instances, but it's not god's fault that things are in such a poor state in some parts of the world?Again if you dad gave you a car and you wrecked it somehow is it your dad's fault for giving the car to you?
"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