(March 30, 2015 at 11:48 am)Lek Wrote:This is almost sensible in a universe where Yahweh exists, and it's just a reminder of how terrifying the god of the Bible is. There really seems to be no particular rhyme or reason to the way he set things up, but he doesn't care: you either follow the rules and hope that you understood them right, or you receive your 'just' punishment, which god will insist you requested. He's the very image of a manipulative and abusive parent or spouse, right down to the part where the victims keep telling us that "he's a really nice guy when you get to know him; the black eyes and broken arm are totally my fault."(August 13, 2014 at 2:05 am)Quantum1Connect Wrote: So tell me, am I going to hell just simply because of a changed philosophical schema?I don't believe that hell is "eternal" torment, but I would assume you're going there simply because you are choosing to go there.
"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
