(May 20, 2014 at 4:08 pm)RobbyPants Wrote: The standard answer is no believer is a devout enough believer.Some Christians will explain that the prayer must ask for something that is in accordance with god's will. To simply ask for something for the 'wrong' reasons (like asking that your obnoxious neighbor get hit by a bus) is kind of like abusing the prayer system and god doesn't roll that way. So just make sure that whatever you ask for is in keeping with what god wants.
Which is to say, you should pray for god to do what god already wants to do. So that he'll, you know... do it.
"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
