(June 23, 2015 at 6:46 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: But have any of you bleeding hearts stopped to consider what would have happened to these girls if the men had NOT been required to marry them?Wouldn't god have taken care of them by some other means? Having little other choice than to accept your rapist's marriage offer sounds pretty awful. I think it would've been much better if god had simply warned them that if they attempted to force themselves on a woman, their penises would immediately shrivel up and fall off. This is definitely within god's power to do, and it would be a much better deterrent than forcing the attacker to own his victim for the rest of her decidedly miserable life.
"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
