RE: Rational defense of Christianity?
January 2, 2015 at 8:46 am
(This post was last modified: January 2, 2015 at 8:52 am by Tonus.)
(December 31, 2014 at 11:23 pm)Sillysheep Wrote: I sympathize with you. Unfortunately the churches are full of Christians that don't know who Christ is.I suspect that they say the same thing, only they're pretty sure that their version is the correct one. And no doubt that some of them have experiences that 'prove' that their version is the one. And that some of them have used 'reason' and 'logic' to determine that their version is the one. And that none of them can corroborate any of this sufficiently to get the rest to abandon their own claims, much less provide the evidence necessary to unite them in one set of beliefs. I just wish that they'd all understand how this looks from the outside.
Quote:I was an embarrassment to Jesus,You've got plenty of company on that score.
(January 2, 2015 at 1:24 am)Drich Wrote: The tree represents choice. Since the tree was placed in the garden from the beginning, it means God intended that we be given choice.If god had not placed that tree in the garden, would Adam and Eve have been deprived of a choice to serve or reject god?
"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