RE: How to convert Christians to atheists in 30 seconds (ironically, using bible)
November 30, 2016 at 1:11 pm
Thread titles like this make me think of those Youtube videos titled "JOHN DOE DESTROYS CHRISTIANITY IN TWO MINUTES" or "JANE DOE CRUSHES ATHEISM WITH ONE QUESTION." And the comment section is full of people who are neither crushed nor destroyed. But I get it. A video titled "JACK SMITH CALMLY DISCUSSES RELIGION FOR FIVE MINUTES" isn't going to generate much interest among the commentariat.
"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