(April 3, 2013 at 7:26 pm)Baalzebutt Wrote: So it just wasn't important enough to mention in genesis?
That makes me wonder if either of the writers of the creation accounts even believed in angels. As far as I can tell (very little knowledge on this topic), the ancient mythologies were mostly populated by greater gods and lesser gods. When did the notion of armies of creatures that stood somewhere between men and god first appear?
"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
