(March 26, 2015 at 9:39 pm)Drich Wrote: Do you know what Jesus said to doubting Thomas after Thomas demanded 'proof?'Based on the stories, it seems that Thomas knew Jesus and the apostles personally, and probably saw some of the miracles and heard some of the speeches. Anything he missed could have been filled in by the people who were there. So Thomas' lack of faith is very different from that of someone living thousands of years later, in a day when no one even knows who wrote those books or whether any of it is true. The day that a virgin-born, miracle-working, self-resurrecting fortune-teller shows up and starts walking on water and healing the sick, Jesus' words to Thomas will apply to me.
What makes you think Thomas' answer could not apply to you?
"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
