(March 31, 2014 at 12:50 pm)MindForgedManacle Wrote: The only mention of it i can recall on the spot is during a debate where William Lane Craig said he wasn't sure if that was supposed to be a historical account or apocalyptic imagery...When in doubt... ALLEGORY.
It would be cool if there was a way to measure what percent of the Bible was considered literal versus allegorical over the ages. Was it ever 100%? Maybe it started at 75% or so and increased to 99.4% and these days it is somewhere around 42.9% real and 57.1% allegory.
"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
