(November 20, 2014 at 12:10 pm)professor Wrote: If your tale was a fact- like the facts we all can SEE (like gravity), nobody would disagree.Doesn't that mean that the Bible is false? After all, even the people who believe in it disagree on many points within. If the Bible taught facts, nobody would disagree, right?
The disagreement is a pointer to something.
"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
