(January 3, 2015 at 1:05 pm)Drich Wrote: God allowed the same thing with satan.But was Satan presented with a "tree" of his own, or was he granted knowledge of good and evil in some other manner?
Drich Wrote:Appearently He does not want sentient beings serving Him, that if given a choice would not serve Him.I think that opens up a whole different can of worms. Apparently he has created a universe of sentient beings that generally prefer to go it without him. Doesn't that seem like a planned outcome?
"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
