(September 12, 2013 at 1:58 am)max-greece Wrote: Two words:
Tractor beam.
Or gravity. God pulled him up towards himself. Or he pulled himself up towards himself. Like a black hole. Jesus could have turned to the assembled disciples and said "I will now enter god's large and powerful black hole, where I will reside for all eternity."
"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
