(August 20, 2014 at 11:40 pm)Drich Wrote: Yep, by design. Otherwise only one of us need knock and the rest would have to believe.That doesn't make sense. God cannot simultaneously want everyone to be saved, yet guarantee that few will be by deliberate action (or non-action) on his part.
"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