(September 10, 2013 at 8:13 pm)BadWriterSparty Wrote: I would think that if the fate of the entire human race hinged upon a collection of Holy writings that accuracy would have been of the utmost importance to every author throughout the canon.
It certainly should've been a priority for the guy who was supposed to be "inspiring" the fucking thing.
"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
