I was thinking more along the lines where person A describes his personal conversion experience and how he felt that god communicated with him in some way, and person B determines that it must have been a demon that person A dealt with, because god wouldn't have led anyone to that religion (or belief). In such a case, how do we determine who is right? It may not matter to those involved (although the degree to which people seek to convert one another would indicate otherwise most of the time) but to someone outside of it, there's insufficient basis on which to judge.
Unless we make up our own rules...
Unless we make up our own rules...
"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
