(April 10, 2014 at 7:37 pm)RobbyPants Wrote: One thing I've realized that I seldom see Christians talk about in any detail is heaven.I think that in a book filled with ambiguous ideas that are open to so much interpretation, heaven might be the most ambiguous of all. There really isn't much of a description of it in the Bible, just bits and pieces that don't really fit together well and don't give a very good picture of what to actually expect.
I find it interesting that there is probably more conjecture about hell than there is about heaven, particularly among Christians. It's as if hell is something that they can visualize well enough and fear, but heaven is too vague to really visualize and simply not appealing enough. This is probably where alternatives like eternal life on a paradise on earth come from, in that they sound more interesting than spending eternity in the astral plane, patting god on the back and telling him what a swell guy he is, over and over and over and...
"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
