(February 8, 2015 at 2:31 am)snowtracks Wrote: You may love Stephen Fry’s response but there won’t be any questions asked (there is a reason for that), and no hubris will be on display when that time comes.What, the time of his death? Of course not, he'll be dead. You know who also won't be asking questions or displaying hubris? God, because he doesn't exist.
As for Ray Comfort, he took the easy and lazy way out by playing the old "god made everything, but it's people's fault that bad things happen" card. Because it was Adam and Eve who developed the system of cell mutation that leads to cancer, Ebola, viruses, and parasitic worms. And it was Adam and Eve who developed the system of plate tectonics that causes earthquakes and tidal waves. Or the weather system that causes hurricanes and tornadoes.
In other words, Ray Comfort is a fucking idiot.
"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
