ex-Jehovah's Witness. I can't recall what the exact first thing was, though I can recall being troubled by the case of Judas, the guy who betrays Jesus in the NT. It is the first time that I could not come up with an apologetic defense of god regardless of how much stretching and twisting and "interpreting" I tried to do.
"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
