(June 25, 2015 at 5:22 pm)popsthebuilder Wrote: And before anyone says how cruel it is if it does exist just know that evil and chaos are needed for some sort of balance.Does this mean that god is equal parts good and evil in order to provide that balance? Or that there is an evil god who is the equal of the good one? And that either of those is true out of NECESSITY?
"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