(June 23, 2015 at 9:16 pm)professor Wrote: You ask why didn't God just say, abracadabra? rather than the painful route we see.
Because after all is said and done, there will be no voice of questioning the justice of the Creator.
Everyone will stand on the result of their own choices.
As I asked Godschild in a different topic, why is it better for us to choose our fate than for god to do so? Do you believe that, given the responsibility to do so, god would choose hell for anyone? If so, doesn't that make him seem terrible? If not, then why put us in a situation where we must trust the judgment that will fail a great number of us instead of relying on the guy who would save us without reservation?
"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
