The question of filling up the Earth isn't that hard for Christians to deal with, IMO. God told humans to fill the Earth, so it can be assumed that he had some plan for what to do at that point. When I was a believer, I liked the idea that we'd be using our perfect brains (JWs believe the whole "we only use a tiny fraction of our potential" bit) to build space ships and terraforming equipment. Heck, would we even need that stuff? Maybe god would teach us how to build little portable wormhole generators. Earth too full? =click= 'Sup, Andromeda Galaxy!!! What, space is hostile to human life? *pray pray pray pray* Not anymore!
You have to understand just how comforting it is to have an easy answer to any question. A magical titan who can wish universes into existence with a snap of his fingers can solve pretty much any conundrum.
You have to understand just how comforting it is to have an easy answer to any question. A magical titan who can wish universes into existence with a snap of his fingers can solve pretty much any conundrum.
"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
