(April 27, 2015 at 2:15 pm)professor Wrote: It was a test and they failed, just as we all fail to do what we know we ought to do.
Each one of us would have blown it, and don't say Adam and Eve must have been stupid- we would have done likewise.
Are you saying that humanity was going to fail that test, no matter what? Because if so, then it's in our nature to fail it, and that would be the fault of... hmmm... who was it that created humanity in that story?
I mean, let's think about this. If we go by the Bible's explanation of things, only one human being ever managed to be perfect, and that was the time that god paraded around in a human costume. The closest anyone came aside from that appears to have been Job, and his reward was that god sicc'ed the devil on him and allowed Satan to dish out one unholy ass-whipping after another. Then god himself stepped in at the end to chastise Job for daring to expect that god would explain just what the fuck had happened to him and his family.
Yahweh designs humans so that they can fail. The one guy who makes a decent impression gets pummeled for it. Then Yahweh puts on a human suit and mocks us for being imperfect and sinful. Then he gets people to blame themselves for his massive ego-driven dickery. I get the impression that Yahweh is actually ancient Hebrew for "mother-in-law."
"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
