(October 5, 2014 at 3:45 pm)C4RM5 Wrote: The only people God ordered the destruction of where the nations that were wickedThat was just the excuse given. He wanted the land, and since he was the almighty god and powerful and wise beyond imagining, he came up with a revolutionary solution: massacre every man, woman, and child (except for those occasions when he allowed the Israelites to take virgin girls as wives, which you probably consider to be "mercy").
"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
