(March 30, 2014 at 9:55 pm)Revelation777 Wrote: It all becomes proof when He Returns...I was going to reply "that's convenient." But it's not, is it? It's long past the time when a Christian could use that as a smug rejoinder, because men have been predicting the second coming for several centuries now. And Jesus just refuses to show. And you have to either keep making excuses for him, or just grit your teeth and insist that he really, really, REALLY will be here, or that two thousand years isn't really such a long time.
"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