(March 22, 2013 at 7:58 pm)Godschild Wrote: I would like to point out something if you do not mind, you forgot to answer my question.
I did, by pointing out that you focused on the most minor of the inconsistencies to support your claim that they don't matter. I could understand an explanation for this one minor inconsistency, and perhaps even for several of them in isolation. Not for all of them as a whole. If you have several people tell you about something they saw, or heard second-hand, you would expect some inconsistencies. But not so many, especially if we're talking about one of the most (if not THE most) important events in history.
If you meant that none of them matter because they're less important than the event that they are supposed to be corroborating, er... okay, I guess.
"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
