(March 23, 2013 at 11:42 pm)jstrodel Wrote: No you didn't. You never lived a holy life.You make that judgment because you start from the conclusion and work backward. Which is fine, since that's the same thing I do when I point out that...
jstrodel Wrote:Holiness is when your eyes open and you see the glory of God. It is intensely pleasurable and satisfying to experience the glory of God.No you haven't. You've never seen the glory of god. You're hallucinating because you've got some mental problems, possibly some deep psychosis at work. Insanity is when you open your eyes and think you see god, and derive feelings of intense pleasure and satisfaction from something that isn't really there.
"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