(September 18, 2014 at 6:00 pm)Pickup_shonuff Wrote: That biblical phrase "it rains on the just and the unjust" is another way of saying, "prayer has no influence outside of your subjective feels."It also allows for 'bad things to happen to good people' and vice-versa. Gotta cover all the bases.
"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