(January 25, 2015 at 3:05 pm)dyresand Wrote: i mean.. at least be creative i mean god if a god ever existed wouldn't even bother listening to vocal or any sort of request or prayers.I don't see why not, especially if we were made in his image. People seek one another out for help, favors, supplication, and any number of other requests, and many times they get something out of it. I do think that a god would not want prayer to be some rote repetition of a few phrases, as if he has a bad memory and needs to be badgered constantly in order to get something done. But taking requests and helping people? That would seem natural. It's certainly not something we see any imagined gods doing.
"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
