RE: Theists, some questions
October 23, 2013 at 8:25 am
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2013 at 8:26 am by Tonus.)
(October 22, 2013 at 7:45 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: But you can't know whether it happened or not so you will have to take it on trust AKA faith.Unless it's a disembodied voice telling you to kill someone?
Mind you, I think yours is a good approach to take when the example from the OP is offered. There have been examples of people who claimed that god told them to kill, and then they did so (or in the case of David Berkowitz, dog told him to kill and he did so). I think that most people, certainly most rational people, would respond as you are responding, and deciding that making sure is better than shrugging your shoulders and deciding that god commanded it and you must do it.
Otherwise you'd be no better than Abraham.
"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
