(February 16, 2015 at 12:58 pm)h4ym4n Wrote: What a great *get out of jail* free card.On the contrary; what a terrible arrangement. Unless god arranged for some people to beat him up, there would be no redemption for mankind. God would not have provided a way out of a trap that he set for humanity in the first place, then blamed them for. Keep in mind that although none of Adam and Eve's descendants had any hand in the fall of man, they had absolutely no mechanism of their own for reversing the curse. They were dependent on the schemes of a person who thought up the idea of a human-god-hybrid three-day sacrifice as a way to fix the problem.
Rube Goldberg thinks that god's schemes for salvation are convoluted.
"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
