(February 13, 2014 at 8:22 pm)xpastor Wrote: Indeed from the classical Christian viewpoint the Bible was one long catalog of ways in which God had manifested himself in this world.I was thinking much the same. The god of the OT interacts directly with the world and with the humans on it numerous times, as do several of his agents. And the god of the NT goes through the whole "human experience" from birth to death and interacts directly with humans. What is this nonsense about how god was meant to be non-physical? If he got any more physical, he'd be Olivia Newton-John!
"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