Heh.
I don't think that the original writers were literalists; much of the Bible's content reads like mythology and morality plays, punctuated by attempts at recording historical events long after they'd occurred.
I don't think that the original writers were literalists; much of the Bible's content reads like mythology and morality plays, punctuated by attempts at recording historical events long after they'd occurred.
"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
