(September 18, 2014 at 1:06 am)Breakable Wrote: well, why are you so mad? of they were as honest and chrostian as the news says they are, theyre enjoying beers in heaven right now.Only if god exists, and is the specific version that they worshiped, and only if they met his standards for heaven. Unless "getting crushed by a church" is some sort of get-out-of-hell-free card. And of course, only if "the news" knew them well enough so that their characterization of them was accurate, as opposed to the implication that by being at church, they were being good Christians.
"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