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RIP: Stephen Jay Gould
gdyas writes: " Reuters reports that famed paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould has died today at age 60 of cancer. Famous for his many essays on natural history, modifications to Darwin's theories, and as the winner of the American Book Award for "The Mismeasure of Man", a history of intelligence testing, Gould was and remains a profound influence on biology." CNN also has a piece on him.
Just like the rest of us, athiests go where God sends them.
Jesus told us two conditions for salvation:
1)Believe in Me, and you shall be saved. A sufficient condition.
2) Except through Me, no one shall be saved. A necessary condition.
We can assume that some one who ignores the easy, sufficient condition is probably in trouble, but, re-read 1) and 2). He didn't say ``Don't believe in Me and go to hell.'' Jesus might well chose to intervene for someone who didn't believe, and it's none of our business either way.
It seems to me that God must really like evolutionists. They spend so much time studying his creation, and telling us all how wonderful, and how wonderfully unlikely, it all is. I should think that and a reverent attitude should count for a lot, but see my point in the previous paragraph: we don't know, and probably shouldn't speculate. God told us how we can get to heaven if we want. If He had wanted us to know who wasn't going, He'd have told us that. That information is conspicuously lacking, from the bible and from the fossil records.
If you've accepted God's grace, and admitted the Holy Spirit into your heart, you're saved. If there is another way to salvation than point 1) above, it is uncertain, and painful, because it precludes having the comfort and love God wants us to enjoy right now. That's probably why He didn't tell us about the other way; He didn't want us to go there.