(March 7, 2014 at 8:59 am)professor Wrote: I thougth to point out that prior to the rebellion of Lucifer, God's justice had no need to ever be displayed, therefore, the devil apparently thought Him to be a pushover.That's the plot to every '80s action film.
"They thought he was weak. They made fun of his ponytail and fake Brooklyn accent. They thought he was a pushover. They thought wrong. Steven Seagal is... GOD."
Then again, is that the only thing that was keeping the angels in check? The thought that god had enough muscle to put them down if they got out of line? Didn't god radiate love and compassion and kindness and wisdom and all of these good things? Or was he aloof and angry and boastful all the time, and the angels simply picked up on it, the way any child will mimic the behavior of his parents, whether good or bad? Were the angels naturally aggressive, and needed to be reminded now and then that god was not someone to mess with?
"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
