(August 15, 2013 at 9:00 pm)Faith No More Wrote: What a painful existence.
Makes me wonder what their suicide rate is.
Probably pretty low. Remember, they can't do that, either.
Someone mentioned that for most of them the future hope is not heaven, but an eternity on Earth. To be honest, that always appealed to me. I did not see heavenly existence as all that great. You wandered around on the clouds, told god how awesome he is, and... nothing else. That really didn't seem more attractive than being on Earth, exploring, experimenting, building and inventing things, learning more about the universe, occasionally remembering that god exists, and hanging around with friends, etc etc.
Some people have said that the best way to become an atheist is to read the Bible, or any holy book. I think the second best way is to come to an understanding of the concept of an eternity in heaven.
"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
