RE: Where did the universe come from? Atheistic origin science has no answer.
October 21, 2014 at 12:16 pm
Or conversely, the Bible refers to the Earth as a "circle," in which case the reference to the heavens has nothing to do with the expansion of the universe, and instead is meant more literally: the belief that the heavens were a canopy stretched over the flat circle of the Earth. Suddenly the statements sound a lot like what you presume most people believed at the time, and not some cryptic reference regarding the origins of the universe.
"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