(April 15, 2014 at 10:59 pm)Polaris Wrote: Why do people assume that just because the Bible contains accurate historical information that it's the same as validating a belief in God?I think they assume that because many Christians will use the "historical accuracy" of the Bible to bolster their claim that the stories are true. But I agree that the fact that some of the stories reference real people and places mostly helps us to understand when and where they may have been written, and little more than that.
"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
