(June 5, 2013 at 3:31 pm)ronedee Wrote:(June 5, 2013 at 2:51 pm)Brian37 Wrote: We can prove George Washington existed but no sane person would claim he could fart a Lamborghini out of his ass. No sane person would claim he could cure blindness or heal an amputee.Sane doctors heal people all the time! Even of blindness...something Jesus said He would cause in certain people!
I believe that Brian was referring to George Washington. In other words, we accept that he existed, but not that he did anything supernatural. Ergo, positing that there are references to a historical Jesus means only that a man named Jesus existed, not that he cured the blind or went to the moon in a space ship.
"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
