(October 17, 2013 at 8:21 am)professor Wrote: In fulfillment of O.T. prophecy which said; "Look- your king comes, humbly riding on back of a foal of an ass". ( humility is the very opposite of what worldly kings express as they rode in on horses)
But he was also being regaled as a god and a king by adoring masses. When the pharisees grumbled about this, Jesus told them that if the people had not raised their voices in praise, "the stones would cry out." How humble is it to require praise so desperately that you would've demanded that inanimate objects pick up the slack if the locals hadn't been enthusiastic enough?
"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