(March 31, 2015 at 7:05 pm)Lek Wrote:Inventing a scenario and then claiming it is real doesn't make it real. Looking forward to an eternity "serving" a being who is so unpredictable and just downright mean is lunacy. In any case, the difference between preparing for an afterlife versus not doing so is that I am no longer wasting my time preparing for a future that won't happen, and instead using the time I have productively.(March 31, 2015 at 5:37 pm)Tonus Wrote: We'd be better served learning how to hold the "grabbing your ankles" position for long stretches of time.
You're already doing that, except instead of blaming it on God, you just accept those things as part of living in this world. What's the difference between "grabbing your ankles" as a theist or as an atheist?
"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
