(February 10, 2015 at 6:59 pm)emilynghiem Wrote: I would say that as long as the Bible is used to establish truth by consensus that respects the free will and good for all equally, and resolves all contradictions and includes all things and explains everything in full,I think I see the problem here.
"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