I cringe anytime someone starts in with what was meant by the "original" language a text of the Bible was written in and whether the word used had one meaning or two. The most important book in all of human existence, the book that guides you in god's ways and helps you to understand his mind, and he couldn't even bother to make it clear enough which words he used? "Here you go, humanity-- the book that will either save you for all eternity or doom you to eternal torment. Oh, and I lost the decoder ring, so you're on your own." *maniacal laughter*
"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
