(February 25, 2014 at 3:33 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: You do realize that the New Testament contains hundreds more commandments than the Old Testament? The writers were like American legislators. They thought that if they had enough rules it would eliminate all of the problems.That just made it worse. And since the old law was fairly strict and controlling, the "new law" had to be that much more so. Which is why so much of it deals with 'thoughtcrime.' As Jesus told the crowd in Matthew 5, it was no longer enough to obey the law via action; if you could not control your intent or desire, you were guilty of the crime anyway.
"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
