RE: Did Yahweh Set Adam Up?
April 23, 2015 at 7:40 pm
(This post was last modified: April 23, 2015 at 7:40 pm by Tonus.)
(April 23, 2015 at 7:31 pm)professor Wrote: All of us here, at one time or another, have fallen for the words of the snake, the seeking after the kind of knowledge the snake led them to- is the same kind exalted here.The difference being that god didn't wander around my home, giving me advice and teaching me about the universe. You want me to judge god by a book, or by a feeling, or by some spiritual experience. But the people who knew him personally didn't really think much of him.
And remember that the knowledge that the serpent offered Eve was that which god already knew. God lamented that the two humans had "become like" him, having gained his understanding of right and wrong. Since when is it a bad thing to become more like god, who made humans "in his image"?
Honest, prof, the story is just all over the place. And it's understandable; when you were chiseling your campfire tales into a piece of rock, fixing plot holes was a major undertaking.
"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
