(January 10, 2015 at 4:03 am)Grasshopper Wrote: I'm just baffled that people think Christianity is the root of all evils like slavery.That's not what people think. People simply wonder how a nation of people governed by the almighty god of all creation --a moral arbiter of utmost purity backed by irresistible power-- nonetheless took, bought, and kept slaves, to the extent that they had to write out rules for managing them. Or that this is defended under the idea that the social and cultural mores of the time were too much for that god to overcome. There is no sensible defense of the use of slavery by Israel that is described in the Bible.
"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
