RE: Most Retarded Thing You've Heard From Priest/Preacher
June 6, 2013 at 4:31 pm
(This post was last modified: June 6, 2013 at 4:34 pm by Tonus.)
I don't remember the year/issue, but there was a Watchtower magazine where they were trying to explain how god could see the future, yet be blindsided by man's actions. They compared god's ability to see the future to the muscles of a very strong man. Even when he wasn't using his muscles, he was still a strong man. He just wasn't using them at that moment. Thus, god could see into the future, but it was an ability he didn't always use.
It is the first time that I can recall where I took exception to a teaching. I don't know if it started me on the road to atheism, but I think it was the first chink in the armor of religion for me. It's just incomprehensible that something that ridiculous got past an editor.
It is the first time that I can recall where I took exception to a teaching. I don't know if it started me on the road to atheism, but I think it was the first chink in the armor of religion for me. It's just incomprehensible that something that ridiculous got past an editor.
"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
