You deal with it by considering the possible outcomes and being as prepared as you can be. This wasn't very different for me as a believer, since I felt that god would only intervene in those circumstances that affected his plan. For any other situations, there was always the possibility that I'd be disappointed. Many believers will use "it must have been god's will" as a way to cope with disappointment. I consider that a sort of "fox and the grapes" type of situation, where you rationalize away the disappointment as best you can.
Without the ups and downs, life wouldn't be such a roller coaster. And everyone loves a roller coaster, don't they?
Without the ups and downs, life wouldn't be such a roller coaster. And everyone loves a roller coaster, don't they?
"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
