(May 29, 2015 at 8:24 am)Nope Wrote: What does the Holy Spirit do?The JWs believe that the holy spirit is "god's active force." In other words, it's god's supernatural power or energy, which he uses for everything from creating the universe to smiting evildoers to impregnating virgin women to influencing men to write a shitty book. There are any number of ways to describe it, anything from "god's essence" to "god's superpowers." The Bible is pretty ambiguous regarding the holy spirit, so you can define it a number of ways. It is anthropomorphized in some verses, and some denominations regard it as a separate personality or 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
