HEY!
This is an argument over religion, not evolution.


--Steve

And anyway... stonig to death, or burning to death, or circumcision, are customs which belong to some peoples, and not others.
They have nothing to do with religion, other than being officialized by priests.
Evidence is how neighboring Peoples with differing religions may still have similar customs.

EXAMPLE : CIRCUMCISION
According to many an anthropologist and archaeologist, the event described in Genesis, where "The Lord" told Abraham to circumcise himself,
does not describe "The Creator" enforcing the Patriarch to slice away a piece of his own body, but
"God on Earth, the Son of the Sun, the Wings of the Hawk, the Dispenser of Justice"
(who already followed such a tradition on his own Royal Family), telling his new Prince vassal to do the same as a sign of dedication and absolute obedience.

To those who didn't understand... circumcision, infibulation and other forms of body mutilation were the surgeries performed on the babies (or adults)
of the Royal Family in Egypt since the Naqada Dinasty, also known as the "00" Dynasty, sometime around 3900 B.C.
That, ladies and gentlemen, is even before the Flood, according to the integralist Creationists out there.

To those who didn't know... Abram did not come out of the City of Ur in lower Sumer, but from the "Land of Ur(artu)", which is modern Kurdistan;
Abram was a Prince of the Mitanni, who lost a war against the Egyptian Pharaoh (Kadesh, anyone ?   )
was offered as "royal hostage", and became governor of an internal Province (Canaan, the Promised Land).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Qadesh
http://ash.byu.edu/publications/books/?bookid=48&chapid= interesting read...
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sitchin/sitchinbooks03_03a.htm only if it's a dull rainy day...  

Please take note that "Ur" meant "city" and it is chock full of city names all ending with, or containint "Ur" or "Ar": Nippur, Izurtu, Urbuni, Arbailu (modern Erbil in Iraq) Shingar, Harran...



Sooo... where does all this lead us ? It leads us to the understanding that popular lore and customs evolve and change much slower than religion will change your view of things.

No modern metropolitan Turk would stone a girl for an incident similar to the one in Pakistan...
...nor will you see Turkish or even Tunisian women dressed in burqas...

Hi Shorty.

I beg to differ, but...

"Christianity and other religions of the modern world "

...the last time I looked, Christianity was founded 650 years before Islam.

The only "modern" religions I am aware of are Jehova's Witnesses and Mormons, neither of which are very much thought of in Europe.

In fact, other than Jehova's Witnesses themselves, a religion which enforces Death of children because surgery in hospitals is forbidden,
is considered an extreme for of brain washing and blasphemy to the eyes of the Lord.

Of course, you are entitled to your own opinion, but Italian prisons are known for hosting JW "guests"
who refused surgery to their own children and were convinced "prayer will save them".

It didn't. They died a horrible and painful Death.  

raydawg wrote on 06/01/14 at 08:14:07:

...LOL