(October 26, 2014 at 11:26 am)Drich Wrote: That makes me wonder how many here believe that they will be going to hell if indeed hell is real.I based it on the JW belief of how god determines who gets saved or not (they do not believe in a fiery hell, only that hell means you cease to exist and are not resurrected). Since I no longer 'witness' for god, I would be denied from paradise, and so the only option is hell.
Otherwise, I'm just so nice that god couldn't possibly leave me out of heaven.
"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
