(October 7, 2014 at 3:32 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: God gave us free will, we made the mistakes, if God made us love and obey him we would be mindless robots, instead he let us choose whether or not to obey him.The system of reward and punishment he implemented makes it seem as if he wants us to be willing robots. It's pretty creepy to think that he created sentient beings with a specific plan to crush their collective will so utterly. Did he also create flies so that he could pull their wings off?
"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
