RE: Jesus did not rise from the dead -- My debate opening statement.
December 25, 2016 at 8:48 pm
(December 24, 2016 at 12:30 pm)purplepurpose Wrote: If you were polite and present your provocative material gradually, you would get a few days of chatting.
But if he was polite and presented his material all at once, he'd be banned?
"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