(February 11, 2015 at 4:48 pm)SteveII Wrote: Again. Theories from a guy who writes a book in 1986 entitled: God, Reason and the Evangelicals: Case Against Evangelical Rationalism. You can't simply assert that Syncretism is responsible for the gospels or epistles. You would have to either show proof of the positive or show how all other theories are at the very least unlikely.
Oh, now you're concerned about having enough proof?
"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
