(June 10, 2015 at 11:38 am)whateverist Wrote: Rob, can you explain to me why the question of Jesus having been a historical person from around that time should make any difference to me? I'm willing to concede that so that we can get on to the more interesting question of what reason there is to subscribe to the divinity claims.I suspect that this is why the question continues to be discussed and argued endlessly.
"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
