(January 6, 2017 at 7:17 am)ignoramus Wrote: I was just wondering, when a theist communicates with God, is there any etiquette which needs to be followed.
It depends on the religion in question, I suspect that most allow that if you are sincere it doesn't really matter how you approach god.
But I think that prayer 'works' by talking at god and then interpreting your results to fit the expectation that god will answer:
1- If you get what you asked for, god answered the prayer by giving you what you asked for.
2- If you do not get what you asked for, god answered the prayer by withholding what you asked for.
3- If nothing happened, god is waiting for the right moment before answering your prayer.
4- And so on and so forth. Whatever happens is what god willed, therefore your prayer was answered.
"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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