RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
November 23, 2016 at 8:40 pm
(November 23, 2016 at 6:46 pm)The Joker Wrote: This is were Pascale Wagar argument kicks in.
This presumes that we can fool God, or that we think God is only interested in appearances.
On the other hand, if God treasures honesty and truth, he will reward those who chose not to acknowledge him without sufficient evidence. In which case, Pascal's Wager would advise that those who do not believe in God should not fake it. We'll get much better rooms at the Heavenly Inn and Roadside Bar because God doesn't like people who fake their devotion in the hopes of a cookie.
Which means that I got to enjoy the freedom of living life on my terms and then God high-fived me as he escorted me to the "Hookers and Blow Suite."
"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
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