(November 24, 2016 at 2:08 am)robvalue Wrote: You won't even be yourself in "heaven" because your free will must be severely restricted if not removed altogether, to stop you "sinning".
Or you would still have free will and be able to sin and be sent to hell. How long would it take to drain heaven of souls under those circumstances? Or how many heavenly souls would need to be sent to hell before the rest of them spent an eternity in heaven terrified of doing so much as blinking?
"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
