(December 28, 2013 at 10:38 am)enrico Wrote: Now you are stating that...............Insufficient evidence is a perfectly acceptable reason to reject the idea of FUCKING SOULS!No, he said it's a convincing reason. You seem to have this desire to turn everything into an absolute in order to argue against something that is not being said. Considering that most of the time you simply ignore counter-points, I'm not even sure why you would stoop to deliberately misrepresenting a view that you aren't even going to address.
"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