I think that some religious denominations dress it up a bit better than "you get to sit there and tell god how awesome he is for the rest of eternity." But I don't know if there is a version that ultimately doesn't go off the rails if you think about it enough. What happens when everyone's in heaven and god reveals all of the universe's secrets? What do we do when we've learned all there is to learn? What do we do when there's no more risk, and no more danger, and thus no more excitement? What do we do when there's nothing left to discover, to attain, to succeed at? What do you do when you no longer have to do anything?
Heaven is what you get when someone installs a fire extinguisher at the entrance to hell.
Heaven is what you get when someone installs a fire extinguisher at the entrance to hell.
"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
