(August 19, 2014 at 1:38 am)revivin Wrote: (4) His death ended the “superstition” for a short time,What sort of time frame is he referring to? Because if you believe the Bible, Jesus reappeared just three days later to the faithful. And not long after, 500 watched him ascend to heaven and then many of them were infused with holy spirit and began to speak in tongues. I get the impression that Tacitus is not referring to a three-day break. Wouldn't the return from the dead and the miracles that followed have revived the movement immediately and with an energy that surpassed that from before? Kind of strange that it would suddenly hit a lull after its adherents learned that not even death could stop them...
"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
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