(April 6, 2013 at 11:03 pm)jstrodel Wrote: The contradiction happens in the simplistic mind of the literalistic, not in the minds of the serious student of the Bible.
True, the person who takes Jesus' words at face value is going to come to a very different conclusion from the person who performs various types of mental gymnastics in order to force them to mean something other than what they actually mean. But yeah, it's the former who is being dishonest. Heh...
"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
