(December 10, 2013 at 9:54 am)StrongWaters Wrote: I went back four pages and could not find the question. Ask again and I would be glad to answer with no scripture this time.
It was in the post you were responding to:
(December 9, 2013 at 10:47 pm)Brakeman Wrote: Why do you have to ask for god to open eyes? Why would god not make his word perfectly plain and clear?
Did you teach your children in riddles and mystic symbols and then punish then with death if they don't understand and obey? No? Well why would anything but a most evil god do differently.
"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
