(June 25, 2015 at 1:05 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(June 25, 2015 at 1:02 pm)Tonus Wrote: If we gave up our free will and left the decision in god's hands, whether to save us or curse us, which do you think he would choose?Save us. :-)
I agree, because it makes sense. Don't you think it's better, then, for god to have made that decision for us? Centuries of mankind thinking for itself have led us down a road of hardship, misery and suffering and possibly billions of lost souls. Had god made the decision for us, we would all be saved. Isn't that the better outcome for everyone? Given a choice of making my own decision and letting god (the greatest intellect in existence, a loving and generous being who wants what is best for me) do it instead, I'd let god take over every time. Doesn't it seem mean of him to leave such a momentous decision in our hands, knowing that a very large percentage of us will get it wrong?
"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
