(May 22, 2014 at 12:56 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Is Eve, from the Adam and Eve story, in hell right now?That's an interesting question. Presumably --if god is omniscient and understood that mankind might disobey-- he would already have planned out what hell was and what it would be like, so that he could readily poof it into existence as soon as someone broke a rule. Or maybe it was already completed and ready for use, running on a low simmer until it was needed.
Because otherwise the situation seems just outrageously unfair, since it would mean that future generations of humans were handed a seriously raw deal by two people who paid a very light penalty themselves. There's another topic going on about how abortion may be violating the rights of "future people." But abortion is small potatoes compared to a god who condemns the vast majority of "future people" to an eternity of hellfire before the first human blastocyst was even conceived.
"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
