(April 6, 2013 at 8:13 am)Mr_Dew7 Wrote: Hah! Don't do that. I'm not questioning the Bible, never have and never will. But I should learn the arguments of others, so that I can better equip myself with a defense. That's it.
Well, at least you're honest enough to admit it, and like the other theists here, willing to read what others write. I understand the approach only insofar as I tried to follow it myself for a time, but it gets more and more mystifying to me as time goes on.
"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
