(June 7, 2014 at 3:51 am)Wyrd of Gawd Wrote: Jesus never did the fire trick so he must not have been God.
He was more obsessed with water, it seems. Walking on it, turning it to wine, having it spurt out of his torso when it was pierced with a spear. It's just like a rebellious son to choose something to directly confront his dad with. God used fire, and Jesus tried to put it out.
"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