(May 9, 2014 at 11:35 pm)Godschild Wrote: Christians cherish this life, it's given us to do God's work and when small children lose their earthly life because of God's plan He rewards them with a life you can't imagine. What have you got against God taking the innocent to heaven, isn't that just and right.When Bad Writer mentioned the millions of young children who die every year, you stated that they were in heaven with god now. Therefore, to die at a very early age is to be guaranteed heaven, whereas to live a long life is to risk falling out of favor with god and being sent to hell. If heaven is the greatest possible reward, then hell is the greatest possible punishment. Dying as a baby guarantees that you get the greatest possible reward without risking the greatest possible punishment.
Thus, a baby who is taken as part of god's plan is much more highly favored than the person who is allowed to live a long life; he gets the greatest possible reward with no effort on his part, the person who lives a long life must make every effort to earn that reward. So tell me, why would you "cherish" this life, when it's just full of suffering and effort to get something that a baby was given with no effort on his part? Looks like you got the raw deal.
"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
