(March 17, 2014 at 1:51 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: From what I remember in the bible it says that 144,000 Jewish male virgins will go to Heaven.Revelations does some number-shuffling, stating that there would be 12,000 chosen from each of the 12 houses of Israel (or something like that) and specifically mentions a group of 144,000. But Revelations is full of all sorts of batshit insanity and like the rest of the Bible, you can interpret it any number of ways. The JWs have a number of beliefs that are significantly different from mainstream Christianity, which they use as a way of proving that they're the One True Faith™, and which the other denominations use as a way of proving that you should never double-down on stupid.
"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
