(August 19, 2014 at 2:23 pm)revivin Wrote: Actually we don't have the originals for anyone in antiquity so you can't ask for a higher standard than what history already provides.In other words, the Bible doesn't stand out from any other ancient text. A real god would've done a better job of standing out from the crowd.
"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
