(October 5, 2014 at 8:26 pm)Retrolord Wrote: The world back then was barbaric guys. When the world's barbaric, god adheres to it;Why? Why would god need to follow humanity's lead and be just as barbaric as men? Was he somehow incapable of enlightening them? This is the same god who caused the world to flood in order to wipe out all wickedness, and who caused the sun to stop rotating around the earth (cough) for a full day, and who caused fire to fall from the sky and the earth to split open on command, isn't it? Hmm... maybe god wasn't adhering to the world because it was barbaric. Maybe the world was just a reflection of god?
Or maybe... god was a creation of men living in barbaric times. And as in any time period, the super-heroes of the day reflected the attitudes and ideals of the people of their day. Maybe this is why the god of the OT is a war-mongering despot who sanctions rape and pillaging and the keeping of slaves, and the god of the NT is telling everyone to be nice to each other until some future time when he returns as a war-mongering despot who will massacre all of their enemies.
"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
