(March 25, 2013 at 10:30 am)missluckie26 Wrote: Come to think of it when it turned out the praying and giving it my all didnt work, they just turned it right back around on me based on the weaknesses in my life. that being sick probably saved me from a worser fate of the path i was taking.
This is an all too common approach with theists, that anything that happens can be rationalized into something good. If things go well, then god blessed you, just like he always does. If things go badly, then it was for a good reason, and god's blessing will become manifest in time. Or maybe you weren't doing it right, and god is so good that he's giving you a chance to try again.
You know who else thought that way? The false friends who were sent to torment Job when he was suffering.
"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