(December 9, 2014 at 9:31 am)JonDarbyXIII Wrote: 1) Archaeology that supports the "folks and locations" does not, in any of itself, prove anything about the Bible's veracity--only that the stories were superimposed over a historical backdrop. If in 1,000 years, archaeologists uncovered NYC, it would not prove that Spiderman exists.It's also possible that in 1,000 years, not only would archaeologists know that New York City existed, but that a man named Peter Parker lived there. In which case, those pushing for the idea that Spider-Man was real could start from "the consensus expert opinion is that Peter Parker existed." And what are the odds that people named Jonah Jameson, Mary Watson, Robert Robertson, etc also existed?
(You'd probably get stumped by Otto Octavius, but remember... this is New York we're talking about.)
"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
