(February 17, 2015 at 11:30 am)orangebox21 Wrote:It can be both. After all, cursing the world with diseases and parasites would not be the direct consequence of Adam and Eve's action; those had already been explained to them. Anything outside of that was god piling on without cause. So yes, the creation of such things would be a consequence of an action, albeit a completely unnecessary and petty reaction.(February 16, 2015 at 10:22 am)Tonus Wrote: Doesn't that make him seem petulant?You could choose to look at it that way. You could also choose to see it as a consequence of an action.
"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
