RE: The (non) existence of Jesus
September 22, 2014 at 2:18 pm
(This post was last modified: September 22, 2014 at 2:19 pm by Tonus.)
(September 22, 2014 at 12:15 pm)JesusHChrist Wrote: Usually, all I hear from the anti-mythicists is something like "most all reputable scholars think Jeebs existed, therefore he did".I can just imagine a time 2,000 years into the future, when it is shown that there were real life people named Clark Kent, Peter Parker, Bruce Wayne, and Diana Prince, and it will be used as proof that there was a pantheon of gods protecting the Earth from the evil Thanos, who may yet return if humanity doesn't turn from its destructive ways and give both its money and its nubile young virgins over to the new priesthood for "purification."
"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
