(March 3, 2014 at 5:08 pm)JesusLover1 Wrote:Errr... yeah. God gives man free will, which is the freedom to act of his own volition. Then he punishes him with the worst possible punishment if he exercises that free will. Either man has to 'choose' only the actions that god commands, or he is punished with a near-incalculable severity.(March 3, 2014 at 5:08 pm)Tonus Wrote: But if man exercises that gift, he gets sent to hell. That's a really awful gift, don't you think?Man's choice.
It turns out that free will isn't very free at all.
"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
