That is one long post, so it will take time to read through. But the first one states that this 20-year commission of PhDs and big shots concluded that Jesus "was executed [by the Romans] as a public nuisance, not for claiming to be the Son of God." Were the Romans really that uptight? Damn, and people think the moderators here are tough...
"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
