(January 30, 2015 at 12:45 pm)SteveII Wrote: To say that the evidence of the early adopters belief can be applied to any religion is true. You would have to then go through each religion and see the differences--asking questions about the actual event believed to have happened, context, numbers, results, does it contradict reality, and can it be weaved into a coherent worldview.The gospels contradict reality numerous times. You call them "miracles."
"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