RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
December 1, 2016 at 8:46 pm
(December 1, 2016 at 6:28 pm)Luckie Wrote: Sure it's in the old testament, the less regarded part of the bible,
Poor Yahweh, he gets treated like that uncle that finagles an invite to all of the family functions, and everyone tries to pretend he's not there even after he gets blitzed on cheap beer and falls into the pool.
"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