(July 11, 2014 at 10:17 am)Jenny A Wrote: I would like to see a thread about who wrote all those books and why, and how they found their way into the Biblical cannon. There will of course be people popping up to claim that every book was divinely inspired and that nothing could have been added afterwords.You might enjoy this blog. The author sees the Bible as a collection of ancient stories and fables and studies it as a way of learning about the people and societies that wrote them. The contradictions aren't presented as a way of proving that the Bible is false, but as a way of understanding the motives of the storytellers and of the people who put it in the version we can read today. It's very interesting from that angle, IMO.
"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
