(February 1, 2014 at 11:43 pm)Ryantology (╯°◊°)╯︵ ══╬ Wrote: I think it's a valid question, actually. This life is meaningless and this world is ephemeral according to their belief system. It's all about the supposed afterlife and the mansions in heaven. What's the point in hanging around?Especially if you consider the time scales. The life you live in the few years you are allotted here will determine how you spend eternity elsewhere. 80 years, maybe 90. One day you'll be sitting there in heaven, and you'll stop worshiping god just long enough to realize that you've lived for 900,000 years. Which means that 0.0001% of your lifespan was the determining factor in where you ended up. Good thing you didn't slip up during the last, say, ten years (0.000011%) or you wouldn't have been lucky enough to spend the last 899,910 years bowing over and over and over and over. And there's still another whole ETERNITY to go!
"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
