(November 13, 2013 at 4:54 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: Okay, I have a question. When you have a entire community of atheists telling you one definition for atheism and a dictionary telling you another then which is it?
If I was in that situation I'd put down the dictionary, grab a glass of orange juice, then go outside and enjoy the sunshine and the glass of orange juice and try to forget why the fuck I was worrying about the definition of the word "atheism."
"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
