(December 15, 2014 at 4:15 am)The_greatest_river Wrote: What do you think?I think it's a phrase that is used specifically to try and get god off of the hook for the mess he makes in the story of the creation and fall of man. It's not a particularly good excuse, but the other option is to blame god, and Christians aren't about to do that as it screws up the narrative.
"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
