RE: Satan Disproves Christianity
September 3, 2013 at 10:04 am
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2013 at 10:05 am by Tonus.)
(September 3, 2013 at 3:58 am)findingdoubt Wrote: I don't think the idea of being deceived by Satan is the same as the idea of being deceived by another person. The whole premise of Satan in the New Testament is that he has special deceiving powers.
Not really. Satan's primary means of deception, according to the Bible, is to lie or misrepresent the words of others. I agree that there are numerous problems with this, not the least of which is that his very first "lie" wasn't a lie. But his methods of deceiving people are pretty much the same as what people do. Hey, it works. Look at religion.
"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