RE: The free will argument demonstrates that christians don't understand free will.
May 1, 2014 at 1:10 pm
(May 1, 2014 at 11:36 am)MindForgedManacle Wrote: Depends on what you mean by "better".Or "perfect." Or "heaven." Or any other term that might give us a common place to start from instead of grasping at the breeze.
One of the most basic motives that drives humans, just like it drives almost every life form, is selfishness. Ambition. Religious teachings seem designed to combat selfishness, the same as many pithy sayings and phrases and moral fables. Heaven could simply be populated by human souls who have had their selfishness and ambition excised.
With any luck, those humans would lack the necessary means to ask god why he didn't simply remove those two destructive motives from humans in the first place and save everyone the trouble.
"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
