(February 9, 2014 at 6:36 pm)Sword of Christ Wrote: If you have a god that is testable and understandable to science that is the God of the Bible who is beyond all that. Of course science didn't exist when the Jews began to believe in this kind of God as opposed to the other pagan nature controlling gods who would be scientifically observable if they existed.One wonders how the Jews managed to survive without a method for testing claims and experimenting in order to refine certain processes and methods. Oh, right: god made it rain food, campfires, clothes, and wheels.
"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