(March 26, 2015 at 8:02 am)professor Wrote: In the end God wins, but even He does not get everything He wants.That's not really true. God has the power to produce whatever result he desires. If he sets things up so that people can fail and die (or live in torment for eternity) then it was what he desired. There is no scenario in which god wouldn't get what he wants. Well, there's one: scenarios concocted by men, featuring an imaginary almighty being.
"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