(July 23, 2013 at 4:28 pm)ronedee Wrote: She isn't responsible for Chrisitians leaving the church! They are.
Indeed. The curious thing is that you would expect that they knew her position on such issues already. Are they objecting to her expressing them publicly? Did they not really know that a Christian minister would speak out against gay marriage and abortion?
Makes you wonder why they didn't make their decision much sooner.
"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
