(December 16, 2016 at 9:06 pm)snowtracks Wrote: "Eternal suffering" doesn't mean God's punishment; the suffering is self-imposed.
No, it's not. Humans are not the ones who set the conditions under which this fate is to be determined or how it is applied. God does. Misdirecting blame onto oneself is the sort of thing that an abuse victim does. It's bad enough to empower an actual living abuser. To raise an imaginary one to sovereign status is madness.
"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
