(November 19, 2016 at 4:36 am)downbeatplumb Wrote: Is this inconsistency down to:
bad writing?
Got it in one. You have a character who knows God personally and directly. He is so unimpressed by God that he decides to throw a monkey wrench in his plans. We can assume that he knows that the end result of his rebellion against God is that he will be wiped from existence, so he is a fatalist. Or... he doesn't know that God will kill him? Or... he thinks that he can stand up to God and overcome him?
He certainly can't expect to reason things out with God if he'd read the Bible beforeha-- ohhhhhh...
"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
