(May 31, 2015 at 8:51 pm)ronedee Wrote: Well.... while we're "assuming"... what IF He said: All that stuff down there is bullshit!" I created you and the others, and well.... left you on your own." I figured that you needed to learn things on your own." And I knew that you wouldn't want me telling you anything, so I just left that great planet for you to use while I was gone." Do you hate me for that?"Now you are asking me how I would react if it was a completely different god who revealed himself to me. I wouldn't hate god for leaving us all to our own devices, since my life has gone pretty well. Heck, I might not even be curious, since it seems he is a hands-off kind of deity. Lots of other people might not be as relaxed, especially those who are suffering terribly and just found out that their lives are a sort of high school experiment for an all-powerful guy who was probably just bored.
"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