(January 29, 2015 at 7:21 am)YGninja Wrote: This was 3-3500 years ago, there was no choice, for any man or woman.But there was plenty of choice for god. The same god who drowned the world because people were becoming too wicked. The same god who struck a man down on the spot for trying to steady the ark of the covenant when he thought it was going to fall over. The same god who visited plagues upon Egypt, hardened the heart of its leader to force them to watch, then buried his army under the sea. The same god who massacred 70,000 innocents because their king took a census. The same god who struck down a man and his wife on the spot when they lied about the sale of a plot of land.
You're telling us that the same god who did all of that suddenly found his hands tied when it came to protecting women from rape?
"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
