(March 21, 2013 at 12:27 am)Godschild Wrote: Yes they are minor compared to the resurrection of Christ everything is less.
But you're saying that an incredibly important part of the Christian belief system is documented in a set of testimonials riddled with inconsistencies, in at least some part because this extremely important event wasn't written about for decades after it occurred. Because the belief is so important, it overrides any concerns about the validity of the descriptive accounts. That is circular reasoning.
"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
