(May 8, 2014 at 10:38 pm)Godschild Wrote:But that implies that you believe that it's better to die as a young child (earning a guaranteed spot in heaven with god) than to grow up and live out your life (and risk hell). Doesn't that imply that it's the Christian who sees this life as worthless or futile, and not the atheist?(May 8, 2014 at 10:38 pm)Bad Writer Wrote:They will be rejoicing in heaven for all eternity with God, while all those who reject Christ will be enduring their own self made torment.
"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