(March 7, 2014 at 1:58 pm)rsb Wrote: Argument for Christ never existing.There are some people who will insist that there is no evidence that the Jesus who was referred to as the Christ ever existed, there are others who accept it for argument's sake, and there are others for whom it's a moot point. I'm of the latter camp, that the point isn't whether or not some guy named Jesus existed and people claimed that he was the son of god. The point is whether the Christ --god made flesh, who performed miracles and revived himself after death-- ever existed.
Quote:The evidence for evolution is rock solid and super strong, why pollute it with speculation about origins and not simply admit it is a mystery?As far as I can tell, the most common answer you will get from atheists here regarding the origins of life is indeed "we don't know."
"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
