(March 22, 2015 at 11:46 pm)snowtracks Wrote:There's nothing to "embrace." It's a story. Two stories, actually. But not a description of anything real.(March 20, 2015 at 12:57 pm)Tonus Wrote: ...and the context of the first creation account is "there was evening, and there was morning, the XXth day." The context indicates a regular 24-hour day, not "back in the day" or "in our day." And since the account refers to the supernatural actions of a supernatural being, they are not 'harmonious' with science at all. They are specifically the magical acts of a powerful sorcerer.Well, get a load of this: an atheist has embraced the young earthies belief that the Genesis ‘day(s)’ = 24 hours.
"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
