(November 5, 2013 at 4:03 pm)ronedee Wrote: A "true" Christian is the one who [lives by] Christs' teachings.
I think that's a fair way to put it. But it splits "Christians" into two groups; the ones that are counted when someone wants to make an argumentum ad populum, and the ones that are left when the behavior of most of the former group is pointed out. My guess is that the latter group is extraordinarily small.
"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
