(December 24, 2016 at 6:36 pm)AtlasS33 Wrote: Tonus
Again; you mistake his service with the service of humans. He is not an invasion force that wants to enslave you; instead think about gravity for example: if you disobey the gravitational force you perish.
Though; if you refuse to study it and accept it; you will be a savage. Even animals know better; cats don't jump from mountains.
So refusing him is refusing a fact. Refusing a fact is known as "denial"; and denial of the cold makes us sick; denial of gravity makes us fall to break our teeth...denying God makes us burn in hell.
You said that we surrender with every breath we take. I pointed out how convenient that argument is, and in response you claim that it's possible to deny him. I'm a bit confused here-- do I surrender to god with each breath I take, or am I able to deny him?
"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
