(November 12, 2012 at 2:33 am)Godschild Wrote: Surely you're not serious, you want God to keep everyone alive, keep them from their sicknesses, help them out of every situation that would harm them, no wonder you argue against free will, you do not want it, you desire constant baby sitting. Don't worry in a few years you'll be sitting in your rocker strapped in and drooling on your little bib and getting your wrinkly old butt cleaned by your baby sitter. Yep, then your free will, will have disappeared.
I can see it now. Just before being crushed by thousands of pounds of steel, the very last thought going through the accident victims' minds was, "At least God didn't take my free will!"
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell