(December 13, 2016 at 12:39 pm)vorlon13 Wrote: But relying on word of mouth for 50-200 years to propagate His message was unbelievably stooooopid.
If he really was God, then that would not have been a problem. On the other hand, if he really was God then there would have been an avalanche of writings mentioning him and the things that he did, and not just a few scattered memoirs from which the Church salvaged four of the less bizarre ones to include in the Bible. IMO, the Bible would be much improved by the inclusion of the Gospel of Thomas.
"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
