You are wrong, do your reseach properly, and you will find that our Justice system is indeed based on the Bible and Christianity, as is our calendar.
He protected his people the nation of Israel from overwelming odds, not only against the the might of Babylon, but also against Sennacherib's Army (Assyria) where one Angel distroyed 185,000 soldiers. He used the Babalonian World power to discipline the Jewish nation, when they went into slavery as exiles for 70 years due to the fact that they had turned to worshipping Idols, and passing their children through fire (Child Sacrifice), something that was detestable to the creator. It may sound harsh, but he gave them repeated warnings to return to doing what was good, and not to worship Idols made of stone.
"take the young virgins" This goes back to the point you raised earlier, and is around the time of when the Nation of Israel were going through the land of Canaan (Promised Land) conquering all the Nations as they went, of course all these Nations practised what was bad (Child sacrifice etc) and the Nation of Israel where executing the creators Judgment upon these nations, the incident you refer to was regarding the Midianites who had plotted to bring a wedge between the Jews and their powerful God in a hope to stop the march the Jews were making through the land, and they did this by getting the Jews to worship the false Gods of Midian. The Midianite women's seductions of Israelites to their idol Baal-phegor is stated as the cause of offense to God, and why he decreed the complete destruction of Midian, of course they did not carry this out correctly, and so the further instruction was given to clarify and put right.
Now when you read these accounts they are of course during a time of ancient warfare, with the rules of that period and in ancient times invading armies spared no one, not even children, it might seem barbaric to us today, but that's how it was in ancient times, and the language of the accounts reflects that.
You have to understand that the Hebrew writings are the history and wars of the jews and their relationship with their God, where as the Christian Greek writings usher in a message of peace and security through divine rulership.
I do not know how old our planet earth is, but I do know that recorded history of man goes back approx 6000 years. Our planet could well be Millions of years old, a day with the creator is a 1000 years?
I have read the Origin of Species, and to sum it up there are a lot of ifs and buts, too much supposition for me to accept. All I see around me has purpose and design, when I watch the Grand Prix with Ferrari and Mclaren fighting it out in those incredible machines, I would never presume to deny the designers and manufacters they rightful title to ownership and construction, so why should I deny ownership and construction of the Universe and Planet Earth? Who put it in it's orbit? Who put it at it's axis and angle of rotation? who placed it 93 Million miles away from the Sun? who created it's molten engine beneath the earth's crust? who decided it's speed of rotation? who decided the gravitational force for planet Earth? Where did all the Mathematics come from, who placed the laws of physics in place, who was the Quantum Engineer of it all?
Primordial soup? sorry but it is not rational, intelligent, or logical to even consider this, Darwin and his followers are not for me.....................
A little research into archeological studies of the British Isles blows that myth well and truly into the frying pan.
Don't tell me Phil you think the Grand Canyon was shaped overnight too?
