(March 31, 2015 at 2:25 pm)Lek Wrote: What really matters is not what we think of his ways, but rather whether or not he is real. If he does exist and these are his ways, it doesn't do me any good to sit around contemplating how stupid he is.If the description of god or his actions doesn't make sense, I think that's a pretty important point in determining whether he is real or not. If he were to show himself (as he did pretty frequently in the past, based on the stories) then there would be no need to try and figure it out based on old books that are wide open to interpretation. The need to make allowances for his moral turpitude and to come up with complicated explanations to make his actions seem defensible speak against the likelihood that he is real. If the god you worship is real, then we're in a pretty scary situation because he is arbitrary and capricious and willing to go completely against what we consider just and fair actions and there is nothing we can do about it except smile and hope he turns his attention on some other poor sucker. Granted, it would not do us any good to sit around contemplating how evil he is. We'd be better served learning how to hold the "grabbing your ankles" position for long stretches of time.
"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
