(February 25, 2014 at 8:27 am)truthBtold Wrote: People are scared of growing balls of there own.. pascals wager states::The wager actually covers both ends of the spectrum, which is why I compared it to a lottery, although it's a step beyond that. It is a carrot/switch situation:
If you are spineless, its ok to let a fear of hell dictate how to live your life.
if you can fool yourself and believe a fairy tale, you have nothing to worry about.. welcome to forever...
Step 1: "This lottery has never had a drawing but we swear it will one day! And they offer a jackpot of eternal life and 72 virgins, each reading his/her own copy of the Kama Sutra! Buy your ticket now!"
If the person expresses doubt about the fact that there has never been a drawing and therefore the lottery is a fake?
Step 2: "If you don't buy a ticket before the drawing, anyone not in the drawing will be sent to hell, where you will spend eternity trying to fix continuity errors in the Twilight Dawn movies!!!"
Irrational hope and irrational fear. They shouldn't work, but our minds tend to accept many irrational things. Hence... religion.
"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
