(December 29, 2014 at 5:55 pm)Lek Wrote: No one has ever answered the question that I keep asking. Were the Amalekites better off dying quickly by the sword or dying in the way most people do?You mean were they better off dying piecemeal due to age, injury, sickness, or starvation while continuing to reproduce and maintain or grow their population, or was it better to be massacred by an invading army of religious zealots who might leave some of them alive for purposes of slavery and rape?
I'm thinking the former is a much better option, to be honest.
"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
