His analogy might be more convincing if belief in god stopped religious people from committing such horrible crimes. But the prisons are full of people who claim to believe in god and yet did not fear his judgment enough to stop them from hurting or killing other people.
On the other hand, a pedophile priest who simply gets moved to a new parish might well be thinking "isn't it great that I don't have to worry about being judged?"
On the other hand, a pedophile priest who simply gets moved to a new parish might well be thinking "isn't it great that I don't have to worry about being judged?"
"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
