(March 13, 2014 at 4:53 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: Are there not things written down in History books and Science books that you have never seen but you believe it? What if the people who wrote those books made it all up?It is true that there are many things we accept about the past on face value, though I suspect that aside from religious claims, people only accept those claims that sound reasonable. The lives of many historic figures that have little written evidence do not speak of supernatural events, and in the cases where they do those parts are normally rejected. You accept the claims of miracles performed by Jesus because they appear in ancient writings. Do you also accept the claims of miracles performed by Vespasian because they appear in ancient writings? If not, why not?
"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
