(March 15, 2013 at 9:51 am)Aractus Wrote: If you have clear evidence of this I'd like to see it.
Mostly, my views on this are being shaped by books like Karen Armstrong's A History of God and the Bible Contradictions site. I don't know that I'd call it "clear" evidence, as it relies on study of the available archeological evidence, and to my knowledge the very earliest manuscripts of any parts of the Bible have not been found. But it seems that Biblical scholars generally take the view that I stated in my previous post. What I've read so far seems to fit pretty well, but I've got lots of material to read still. Heck, I don't even know what much of it will be, yet.
"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
