(November 5, 2013 at 11:42 am)missluckie26 Wrote: if god already knew the outcome of the bet
The far more fascinating consideration (IMO) is based around the premise that the future is not fixed and therefore god did not know the outcome. Job, for all of his positive qualities, was still an imperfect human. What if he had failed the test, by renouncing god? Would that have proven Satan right and god wrong? And what would the implications of that be?
"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
