(December 24, 2013 at 5:49 pm)savedwheat Wrote: There is nothing about the 66 books of the Bible that would make you think it is a novel.Length. Aside from that, you are correct. It's more of an anthology, which is different stories bound together under one cover and dealing with a specific topic or topics. The Bible could be considered an odd combining of two separate anthologies united by a very fine thread, like those anthologies combining the old Lovecraft tales with newer "Derleth Mythos" related content.
You know: old gods, blood sacrifices, devout followers waiting on the return of a conquering god, and so on.
"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
