(March 16, 2013 at 11:29 pm)MysticKnight Wrote: Is this what the Bible teaches? I almost threw up when I heard this. How can people believe in incest?
Lot's daughters got him drunk and had sex with him in order to "preserve the family line." I suppose that they can be excused for such warped thinking-- not long before that, their father had offered them up to an unruly mob, explaining to them that the girls were virgins so that we don't misunderstand what he meant when he told them that they could "do what you like with them."
Or as others would say, times were different back then. Offer your virgin daughters up for some gang rape? Date rape your own father in return? As Lot would no doubt have said, "that's just how we roll!"
"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
