(October 15, 2014 at 10:45 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: Wait, so did Drich say other religions are the work of Satan's deception?That seems fairly common for the abrahamic religions. God will reveal himself to his true followers, but Satan will seek to deceive. Therefore, if someone else is convinced that he has come to know god, but his revelation is different from yours, then the only possibility is that he was misled by Satan. You were not misled, because you cannot see how your interpretation of scripture could be any more clear or logical, and you have always been on guard against the wicked machinations of the devil. The only possible explanation is that the other guy is lying or has been lied to.
It's not much different from the way that prayer can be rationalized to always work, or the way that A/S/K can be rationalized so it always works. The most effective trap is the one you set for yourself, sometimes.
"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
