(November 26, 2014 at 10:48 am)RobbyPants Wrote: What do you mean by "continuity issues"? I mean, I know what the phrase means, but how does it relate to the story? Just how they back-read Jesus into stories written hundreds of years before hand?Yeah, that and more. The story of the fall of man almost* works all by itself because what it tells us of god's nature and of his creation doesn't derail the story. But once you start to add the rest of the books and claim that they are part of a cohesive universe with its own rules, the stuff in the later chapters has to align, or you wind up with plot holes.
*Almost, because we go from god deeming his creation as being "good" to watching a snake and a naked chick derail it because they had a case of the munchies.
"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
