Darwin, was just a man, a crazy man at that, but his discoveries are part of history.
What exactly constituted Darwin's "craziness"? No all of his observations have withstood the test of time (as he did not know about DNA, and thought that acquired traits could be passed down directly from parent to child, for example), but for the most part, his hypothesis was spot-on, and has consistently been proven to be correct.
What exactly constituted Darwin's "craziness"? No all of his observations have withstood the test of time (as he did not know about DNA, and thought that acquired traits could be passed down directly from parent to child, for example), but for the most part, his hypothesis was spot-on, and has consistently been proven to be correct.
If we're talking in terms of scientific language, a "theory" is the closest thing you'll ever get to facts etched in stone. By the time a hypothesis is granted the name of "theory" it is WAY beyond the phase of blind and unsupported speculation commonly associated with the term in colloquial usage.
Accordingly, "it's just a theory" is about the
worst defense of Biblical literalism anybody could ever come up with, because it not only fails as an argument, it also betrays a profound (cultivated) ignorance WRT the subject matter.
I'm excited that the Hittite libraries have been found, yet it should not really come as a surprise that the ancient Israelites were able to name the peoples and places that existed in their time correctly.
None of that helps to establish that the supernatural events described in the Bible are anything other than myth, just as discovering Troy based on descriptions in the
Iliad did not establish that the Olympian gods were actually walking the earth during the Trojan war, squabbling about a golden apple.
As for God inspiring medical progress: if things worked that way, why didn't God use the Bible (which you believe to be his infallible and timeless Word) to communicate that knowledge a long time ago? I'm sure the ancients would have been glad to discover than some of the more gruesome diseases out there would have lost their menace if they could only get their hands on some anti-biotics. That caesarean sections needn't be lethal for mothers if you managed to keep the wound sterile and relatively small. Or that plagues could be prevented by vaccination.[/quote]
Darwin, was just a man, a crazy man at that, but his discoveries are part of history.
What exactly constituted Darwin's "craziness"? No all of his observations have withstood the test of time (as he did not know about DNA, and thought that acquired traits could be passed down directly from parent to child, for example), but for the most part, his hypothesis was spot-on, and has consistently been proven to be correct.
Darwin was a tormented man and if you read about his Grandfathers it might be noted that his mental problems could have been inherited. Nevertheless he has gone down in history. His theory of evolution is still a topic argued and looked at today. Was his hypothesis "spot on"? thats still being argued. But still, the fact that he did have mental problems should be a fact in considering his hypotheses.
As for God inspiring medical progress: if things worked that way, why didn't God use the Bible (which you believe to be his infallible and timeless Word) to communicate that knowledge a long time ago? I'm sure the ancients would have been glad to discover than some of the more gruesome diseases out there would have lost their menace if they could only get their hands on some anti-biotics. That caesarean sections needn't be lethal for mothers if you managed to keep the wound sterile and relatively small. Or that plagues could be prevented by vaccination.
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Well gee! why doesn't God grow back the leg of an amputee??? Why didn't he just heal everyone over all history, after all he is God. Deut 6:16- It is written again, You shall not tempt the Lord your God. Were back to the same old argument. Who is God? And the same old mindset, if there really is a God then he must perform the way I think he ought to perform and if he doesn't I will mock him and claim he is inept and even go as far as to deny him. OR I will choose to make my own God, I will search the bible and take what I like out of it, then I will go to other gods and take what I like from them and WHALLA!!!!! I now have a god that
I created.