RE: MERGED: The Case for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ (Part 1) & (Part 2)
December 22, 2014 at 1:23 pm
(December 22, 2014 at 1:01 pm)Brucer Wrote: His teachings simply resonate with me, not unlike the teachings of Richard Dawkins resonate with atheists.I think that Dawkins' teachings are more likely to resonate with biologists. I think that many people do consider his views on god and religion to be teachings, but at best I'd consider them reasoned opinions.
"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
