(December 19, 2013 at 8:53 am)Esquilax Wrote: One suspects that the "seek" part of this little ditty requires sincerity.
I think sincerity is the only thing that matters, and should be applied to all three. To think otherwise is to assume that god is a stickler for "fine print." If a person fervently prays to god and begs for guidance, would we expect a just and loving god to turn away because the person didn't fill out the prayer in triplicate and sign with a blue pen? Because that's what I imagine when I see any variation of "you didn't ask the proper way." If I recall, the Bible makes pretty clear that god knows our thoughts and what is in our hearts. To condemn a person over a syntax error seems terribly cruel.
"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
