Did we just spend several pages arguing about how many scholarly books one needs to read in order to defend the Bible? Is there an over/under, to make it easier? Like, is 3500 pages enough? Is there a multiplier based on how many of the authors have PhDs, or how many articles they've had published? A "top scholar" would be like a 2.05 multiplier, Richard Dawkins would be a -1.999... and so on? How many of the "millions and millions" of books in a seminary must I read to cut through all of the mystery surrounding Christianity?
"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
