(February 12, 2014 at 2:16 pm)orangebox21 Wrote: You believe that the ultimate authority of truth is natural processes, laws of science, laws of logic and reason, etc, which is really an appeal to man's collective authority. Your religion rules out anything supernatural.Has anyone ever noticed that sometimes a theist will try to denigrate atheism or science by calling them "religion"?
"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
