(March 22, 2013 at 7:45 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: God was fully aware that change would take a long time and advised people accordingly.
Oh, I dunno. The Bible tells of how the Egyptians held an entire nation as slaves, and god "advised" the daylights out of them and freed millions from bondage. That would be an excellent lesson on how god viewed slavery, except that the very people he freed from it had no issues continuing the practice with god's consent. Someone who could visit plagues upon a country, create a dry path across the sea, and then dump that sea on the heads of a pursuing army should not have had to wait for people to stop keeping slaves on their own.
"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
