(November 25, 2014 at 11:53 am)whateverist Wrote: But does God himself not have free will? If so, how does He remain free of sin?At this point we're sliding right on down the slippery slope at something close to terminal velocity. We've seen how theists will answer this one (god makes the rules, and what he does is good by definition, therefore he cannot possibly sin) and the explanation seems dismissive to me. "God can't sin because he is god... next question!" It makes any further investigation superfluous and, to the theist, very dangerous. To dig any deeper requires the assumption that god could do wrong, and therefore is not perfect.
"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
