(May 11, 2014 at 10:58 pm)Lek Wrote: When people are lying they get together and try to make sure that everyone says he same thing. If all the gospel writers wrote exactly the same, referring to exactly the same events, it would seem to be contrived.If the four accounts selected for inclusion in the Bible were exact in every detail then yes, there would be suspicion that they were simply copying from one another or from some other source. But aside from how divergent the accounts get at some points, there is also the issue that their words are supposedly inspired by god. Why couldn't they have written a series of accounts that came together perfectly to provide a single, cohesive report?
"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
