(May 6, 2014 at 11:19 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Ahh, but God has chosen even a fool as I to confound the wise.That's one of the insidious things about the Bible, the way many writers helped its followers to shield themselves from considerations that might cause them to doubt. If it seems that god is not active, Peter warns us that he's just "patient." If you are stumped by information and evidence that contradict what you believe, it's just the "wisdom of the world" which can't stand up to god's... mysteriousness, I guess, since Paul doesn't explain just why god chose the weak and foolish to "shame" the mighty and wise. But it's enough to get you to dismiss anything that might make you doubt. To the extent that you refuse to respond to the charge that the quote you built your case upon is blatantly out-of-context and dishonest.
"But God has chosen the foolish things of the world to put to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to put to shame the things which are mighty" I Cor 1:27
"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