(July 9, 2013 at 4:26 pm)Dionysius Wrote: In the book of Job we have the antagonist clearly identified - God himself. It is God who informs the devil, "hast thou considered my servant Job?" At which point the devil in all his glory pursues Job *smiting* relentlessly.
That's a good point. The writer of Job doesn't have the Devil broach the subject of Job, which would have made more sense. It is god who apparently can't wait to try and impress Satan with his ability to finally get one miserable human being to walk the straight and narrow. One can only imagine Satan rolling his eyes as he deliberately takes the bait, if only to keep the plot moving along.
"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
