The Biblical god is capable of forgiveness without the need of a blood sacrifice. Jesus forgave a paralyzed man his sins (but not those of the people who helped him get around, apparently) and did not require a blood sacrifice. God forgave king David a raft of pretty nasty sins (rape or adultery, the execution of an innocent man) because he said "I'm sorry." Although in the latter episode god did kill David's unborn son, so perhaps that was the blood that cleansed David of his sin. Sucked to be the kid, though.
"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
