(October 9, 2013 at 10:49 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: I'm subjecting my faith to some stone cold atheism to see if it withstands the onslaught of reason. It seems to thrive better on here than it would on a Christian forum.
I would be inclined to agree that one way to weaken the faith of a Christian is to have him listen to other Christians for a while.
"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