(February 16, 2015 at 6:01 pm)Lek Wrote: Adam's sin resulted in a change in mankind.Which god had the power to undo with a wave of his hand. The idea that forgiveness from god can only be attained via the blood of god spilled when he masqueraded as a human doesn't make sense. The notion that this also somehow grants a complete release from any wrongdoing, thereby creating a black/white situation where you can only be fully condemned or fully cleared, is just as nonsensical.
God demands perfection, strips it away from everyone based on the actions of two people, then creates a convoluted plan that took thousands of years to implement in order to teach humanity... something. What, we're not sure, since the only way to know would be to chronicle it, and the only book he provides is so poorly-written that even his most devout followers cannot agree on what it says. But if you can't figure it out, you're no better than the person who rejects it outright and you might wind up spending an eternity regretting it.
It's lunacy.
"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