(June 30, 2014 at 5:40 pm)ronedee Wrote: I'll answer for you... that you would indeed do it again! The next time you got all green lights again! And most EVERYTIME you went that way you got "mostly" green lights!It seems as if you are admitting that when you experience something that seems miraculous, you deliberately avoid trying to understand what "really" happened, preferring instead to assume that god interceded on your behalf. Isn't that a form of self-deception? Wouldn't you want to know why something good or bad happened to you or to someone you know? You cannot seriously be advocating for willful ignorance as a way of guiding your decision-making!
1. Would you go back to your old route?
2. Would you sit down and analyze the "real" reasons why?
3. Would you keep going that way?
"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
