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1500 Year Old Bible Claims Jesus Christ Was Not Crucified
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e=mc^2 isn't a theory. It's an equation.
A theory never becomes a fact. A theory might become so overwhelmingly supported by evidence that it becomes commonplace to treat it as a fact even in a scientific context, but it's still not actually a fact. Theories explain facts.
For example, the germ theory of disease explains how many diseases are transmitted - by germs.
The diseases are facts. The germs are facts. Experiments were made which showed various other relevant facts, such as the presence of the germs in samples from people with the diseases. The idea that the germs cause the diseases wasn't a fact - it wasn't absolutely proven that there can be no other explanation. It still isn't because it's impossible to do that, but the amount of evidence is now so great that it can reasonably be treated as if it was a fact.
Longer than that - some ancient Greek philosophers argued in favour of a heliocentric model nearly 2000 years before Copernicus. It wasn't generally accepted, but it was proposed.
The term 'a thousand years' was not an implication that it was merely 1000 years precisely, but an indication of a long period of time hence the use of the word rather than the number...and in the ancient world it was not merely proposed but a source of great debate between philosophers and mathematicians some of whom accepted it and others who rejected it in favour of other propositions.
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