(January 25, 2015 at 10:11 am)jesus_wept Wrote: To be fair I did say I thought they were insane before you quote mined me. I'm not endorsing them, I'm just saying that I find them more admirable than the typical keyboard warrior or cafeteria Christian you come across, or even a pope sitting behind his bulletproof glass.My point wasn't to say that you were wrong, just to show how the ease with which the Bible can be interpreted makes a wide range of approaches 'valid.' The people who play with poisonous serpents may seem more devout under one interpretation, and less devout under another.
Quote:And I think the snake verses can be found in Mark and Luke btw, not anything written by Paul but I could be wrong. edit: I was wrong, they're in Mark, Luke and Paul. I really should google things I'm not sure about before posting on the internet.I was actually thinking about the one in Mark, so that was my mistake.
"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
