(January 28, 2015 at 2:42 pm)SteelCurtain Wrote: Right? Even if we take the most liberal timeframes of these gospels being written, we would still be doing the equivalent of trusting someone's parent's eyewitness accounts about James Dean's life, followers, and death 60 years ago---then making a religion out of it where every word of it is literal truth.And without the ease of researching his life that one would have in the modern era. Most likely any writings about people who had been dead for decades would have been based on stories passed down orally and perhaps a few written pieces. In other words, the Gospel of James Dean would be written by someone who never saw any of his work and interviewed the sons and daughters of people who'd read a few articles about him.
"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