In Exodus chapter 32, god is so angry at the disloyalty of the Israelites that he warns Moses that he is going to destroy them and rebuild the nation anew. Moses points out that it would look bad for god to have led the Israelites out of Egypt only to massacre them himself in the desert, and god relents.
Why wouldn't god be able to change his mind?
Why wouldn't god be able to change his mind?
"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