RE: Christian "purpose" and "meaning" in life.
May 15, 2014 at 7:58 pm
(This post was last modified: May 15, 2014 at 7:58 pm by Tonus.)
Quote:4 Paul said, “John’s baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus.”And then he baptized Jesus, at Jesus' own request, because the son of god needed to... repent? Believe in himself? Mess with John's mind?
"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
