(May 13, 2014 at 4:26 pm)orangebox21 Wrote:You mean I'm... *dramatic pause* ...MISINTERPRETING it?(May 13, 2014 at 5:49 am)Tonus Wrote: That would have certainly rid the world of wickedness, evil, violence, and corruption. And if god hadn't second-guessed himself, his solution would have worked.Invalid conclusion. You're reading something into the text that isn't there.
You will note that god's initial intent was to destroy all of humanity because it had become so wicked. As I said, that would have rid the world of all of those problems. Wiping out all animals and vegetation was probably superfluous, but maybe he didn't want any of it evolving into men and starting the whole mess over. But killing every last human would have rid the world of wickedness, etc.
God changed his mind because a single man turned out to find favor in his eyes. Heck, if he'd only saved Noah he still might have rid the world of wickedness. Unless he was to poof up another wife for him. That seems to be the flaw in god's design of man: as soon as a second human enters the picture it all goes to hell.
"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
