Measured by nature's standards rather than by those of historical man, it is at present a delicately balanced, highly perishable world that has evolved over long geologic epochs of environmental change. (realclimate.org)
I guess my answer would be that if Jesus Christ was proven to not be a real historical man who walked the earth then I would most likely not believe. (religion.blogs.cnn.com)
Radical theology's «new forms of faith may be seen to have an apocalyptic form: the new humanity that they proclaim dawns only at the end of all that we have known as history; its triumph is inseparable from the disintegration of the cosmos created by historical man, and it calls for the reversal of all moral law and the collapse of all historical religion. (religion-online.org)