(September 4, 2013 at 9:50 am)Drich Wrote: Again we are not speaking of the 'english' translation of the bible. To only look at the bible in english is a mistake, fore too much is lost assuming that the words printed in english are to be taken from a modern perspective.
You would think that the god who is directly responsible for the many languages that we have would have made sure to write a book that could retain its meaning when translated into any of them.
"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
