(December 5, 2014 at 8:16 pm)professor Wrote: We are not making the end times come to pass.The thing is that, even with the constant news cycle and our predilection for bad news, the world is actually getting better and better. Maybe the people who are all doom-and-gloom and worried about the second coming are the ones you need to be suspicious about.
We are not in control of the increase in earthquakes, or natural disasters.
we are not longing for the wreckage to come but for the resolution of it.
The sin of man has brought forth the Man of Sin.
And he is in place because people who call themselves Christians voted against the core beliefs of Christianity.
This time, you can rightly include blame toward us for what is and what is coming.
"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