(January 3, 2015 at 2:04 am)Drich Wrote:Then why put the tree in the garden? Would their lives have been negatively impacted if they did not have knowledge of evil? It seems as if the tree only affected one particular choice: whether or not to serve god. Why give them that choice at all, if the only possible outcomes were (1)to maintain the status quo or (2)to completely wreck things and usher in a period of thousands of years of human misery and death?Tonus Wrote:If god had not placed that tree in the garden, would Adam and Eve have been deprived of a choice to serve or reject god?Without the knoweledge of sin then there is no rejection of God's word/will.
"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
