(March 20, 2015 at 4:28 am)robvalue Wrote: It is hilarious that christians want us to "find God" with the clear expectation that as soon as we find him, we'll bow down before him. As has been said, Lucy Fur actually knew him in person, none of this pen-pal personal relationship bollocks, and he told him to stuff it, and for good reason.Nor was he the only one. To hear some Christians interpret it, as many as a third of the angels followed him out of heaven. And it really didn't take much to get Eve and Adam to disobey god. How unimpressive must Yahweh be, that people who got to know him so readily walk away from him? Even in the face of threats of eternal damnation!
He comes off as something of a schmuck, to be honest. A really powerful king who nonetheless cannot get people to take him seriously and pouts all the time because he knows that no one respects him and even those closest to him mock him behind his back.
"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