(November 29, 2014 at 8:00 pm)Esquilax Wrote: If Adam and Eve never ate the fruit, they would not only not understand the nature of sin and the test, but they wouldn't even have a concept of what sin could be. The only "lesson" that could be learned from the test is one of failure, conditional to them failing, and frankly, not only is that a lesson not worth learning, but it's also not worth the price that was paid for it.It also means that the test would probably have been failed by everyone, eventually, since the only way to understand what it meant was to fail.
"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
