RE: How can a Christian reject part of the Bible and still call themselves a Christian?
June 19, 2015 at 7:43 am
(June 18, 2015 at 9:03 pm)Lek Wrote: Do you really think Jesus was telling us to hate our mother and father? People use hyperbole every day.But none of them are delivering a message that could affect the eternal future of billions of people. Was it really too much to ask that he make his message as clear and unambiguous as possible? If the god of the Bible is perfect, then it's pretty clear that he just enjoys messing with us.
"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
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