(February 21, 2015 at 11:21 am)Wiggy Wrote: You say God is guilty of injustice yet he suffered injustice himself to save the children.God arranged for people to be unjust to him, even though that was completely unnecessary since he is, you know... god. The god of the Bible is guilty of a lot of things if you read the stories. Primarily, he's guilty of seriously overthinking situations that could have been easily resolved without making people who had nothing to do with crossing him suffer punishments for thousands of years, with the prospect of suffering even worse punishment for eternity if they don't pat him on the back for being such a cruddy planner.
"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
