(December 24, 2013 at 2:32 am)orangebox21 Wrote: ^^^ So then out of curiosity what causes you to reject the testimony of the Bible.I think the Bible sets a bar (the word of the almighty god and creator of the universe) that it does not clear. I find it no different from any other set of old religious or mythical texts designed to impress or entertain us, but which aren't true. At least the old testament, anyway. The new testament seems a more cynical and politically-shrewd approach to the creation of religious mythology.
"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
