(November 6, 2013 at 8:46 pm)snowtracks Wrote: you probably already suspected God didn't give me personal revelation. by the way, that's one thing to be avoided - those that claim God gave THEM a message.
Then how have you become convinced that a god exists, and that it is the god that you worship? For at least some of the theists here, personal revelation is an important part of why they believe.
"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