(March 3, 2014 at 12:26 am)snowtracks Wrote: satan believes and trembles,That's pretty curious, though. Did Satan not know what the end result would be of turning against god? Nor the "third" of the angels who followed him? If they did not know, then god is quite the deceptive schemer. If they did, then even being in god's presence and knowing his will did not dissuade them from turning on him. What do Satan and the fallen angels know about god that they preferred to defy him, knowing that it could only end one way?
"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