(October 18, 2013 at 6:50 am)Sword of Christ Wrote: The Book of Revelation can be taken to be referring to the political situation of the Roman Empire at the time and the anti-Christ would have been the emperor Nero.
Because of the extensive use of symbolism and numbers, there is a staggering array of possible ways to interpret Revelation. The JWs have a fairly elaborate interpretation that conveniently tracks their progress as a religious group in the 20th century. For those who believe, the way everything falls into place is so neat and accurate that they simply have to admit that the JWs are the right hand of god.
"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
