RE: Sins
March 18, 2015 at 6:46 pm
(This post was last modified: March 18, 2015 at 7:00 pm by Tonus.)
(March 18, 2015 at 5:17 pm)Norman Humann Wrote: Are you saying you've never sinned, Drich?He's saying that you can't remove the stigma of sin by being good on balance. Without the sacrifice offered by Jesus, you can't get to heaven. Everyone sins, and everyone needs Jesus to intercede, or we're fucked.
His reference to a zombie infection is reminiscent of Hitchens' description of atonement, where we are created sick and commanded to be well, on pain of eternal torment.
"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
