(January 9, 2017 at 7:30 pm)Godschild Wrote: Satan is at the root of all these other religions, what better deception than to provide a other belief systems that people fill better fits them than the only true God.
This is one of the things that makes it easy to defend one's own beliefs. Other beliefs that are based on what appear to be the same reasoning are attributed to people being misled by Satan, who can masquerade as an angel of light. But it means that everyone's explanation sounds exactly the same and no one can tell the difference. How can one be sure that it was really god speaking to him, and not the devil?
"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
