(January 21, 2015 at 9:06 am)Drich Wrote: What does it matter if the Genesis account was written by more than one person?It only matters in terms of understanding how the books of the Bible were assembled, what the origins of the stories are, and what it might tell us about the cultures and people who told the stories and ultimately assembled them into the form we have today. If that understanding makes the divine origins of the book doubtful, that is incidental.
"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
