(April 27, 2015 at 6:12 pm)professor Wrote: Guys, I make an assumption about A&E- that they had been "Programed" with the knowledge thy needed.The story is poorly-written if you can take either view and make it work. It's a problem throughout the Bible. So much so, that even people who agree on the basics differ so much on the interpretation that you wind up with many denominations because those differences are irreconcilable. Which isn't surprising if the person who takes the approach that god is wicked can make a compelling case using only the same book!
You guys apparently make an opposite assumption.
Thus God looks like the bad guy, and if I made your same assumption, I would agree with you.
"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
