(March 23, 2014 at 11:09 am)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: You forgot to take the quote in context. Let's look at the surrounding verses:It is a curious way of wording it, isn't it? At the moment that Jesus cries out and "gives up his spirit," the bodies of many holy people were brought to life. But they don't come out of the tombs until after Jesus' resurrection. Did Matthew mean that Jesus returned to godhood immediately? Otherwise, the first words from those holy people would have been "for fucks sake, didn't any of you assholes hear me banging on the inside of that tomb for three-and-a-half goddamn days???"
"50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
51 At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, the rocks split 52 and the tombs broke open. The bodies of many holy people who had died were raised to life. 53 They came out of the tombs after Jesus’ resurrection and[e] went into the holy city and appeared to many people.
"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
