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Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels
RE: Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels
(March 14, 2014 at 3:23 pm)discipulus Wrote: The question is, does God exist?

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What reason do we have to dismiss miracles as impossible?
If the first question can be proven, the second is moot. I dismiss miracles as impossible because they seem impossible.
"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
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RE: Totally NOT a debate about the veracity of the gospels - by Tonus - March 14, 2014 at 3:27 pm

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