(February 13, 2015 at 12:11 am)whateverist Wrote: I could never distinguish between Christian morality and pure desperation to save one's own soul at any cost.As it is often described here, they're pretty much the same thing. Although there is the option to dress it up as gratitude, but it really does come down to wanting to make god happy so he doesn't flay you alive over and over for the rest of eternity.
"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
