(February 24, 2014 at 12:33 pm)discipulus Wrote: The Romans in general despised the Jews and more or less tolerated their existence. They were also proud people. Why would they record something that would bring their credibility and judicial practices into question?Would they have understood this at the time? Or did every single historian decide that it was more important to keep the Jews from getting too uppity than it would be to report that there was an earthquake, eclipse, AND zombie apocolypse on the SAME DAY?
Because at some point, I'm thinking that their dislike of the Jews had to take a back seat to OH MY GOD ZOMBIES AND EARTHQUAKES AND ECLIPSES ON THE SAME DAY!!! Or were they really that anti-Jew that they saw these things and said "don't tell anyone, or the goddamn Jews will be all 'I told you so' and whatnot."?
"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."
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