(January 12, 2015 at 6:06 am)Grasshopper Wrote: I haven't watched the video but I'm kind of guessing the guy is shouting for everyone to hear, pointing to god and saying something like Jesus loves you and then getting on with his sermon.His tone is conversational. Here is a transcript of his comments:
Quote:There was a young man in Calgary(?), his name was Ben. And I was running the youth (group), I was there for a few years. And he was a nice kid but he was one of those kids that was always just... he was a real smart-aleck. (He) was a bright kid, which didn't help things, right? Made him more dangerous. And we were outside one day --youth group-- and he was just, just trying to push my buttons and he was just, you know, kinda not taking the lord serious. And I walked over to him and I went 'BAM.' I punched him in the chest as hard as I-- I crumpled the kid. I just crumpled him. And I said, I leaned over and I said 'Ben, when are you going to stop playing games with god?' I led that man to the lord right there. There's times that that might be needed.
"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
