(December 27, 2013 at 2:35 pm)Nineteen Wrote: Apparently its being away from religion but it works like a religion , its a belief type , a political system , an ideology .
Most of that is in response to the unwanted intrusion of religion into people's lives. Aside from that, I live a life now similar to that which I did when I was religious, with the obvious difference being that I do not do any of the religious things (pray, go to church, proselytize, etc). For me, atheism is exactly like not having a religion at all.
"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
