(November 5, 2013 at 2:21 pm)Godschild Wrote: Why is it unfair for God to punish for an eternity, would it actually be fair to reward for eternity and then not punish for eternity?
That depends. What is the cutoff for going to hell or to heaven? And are the punishments and rewards the same for everyone who falls into one of the categories?
"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