(February 14, 2015 at 4:18 am)Harris Wrote: If death is neither good nor evil then you should not be afraid of it. Are you not afraid of death?No, I am not afraid of death.
Harris Wrote:Well I asked that question because in your previous response you were saying:I'm just pointing out the discrepancy between what you claim god is, and what you describe him as. Although I do notice that many theists will attempt to sidestep this problem by pretending that the atheist believes in god, as opposed to following the discussion wherever it may lead.
“It is how god set things up, god wants suffering, god wants conflict, god wants pain and death and struggle, and god is simply making you tough enough to become a soldier.”
I thought perhaps you believe in God but little bit unhappy with Him.
"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
