(November 13, 2014 at 3:44 pm)dyresand Wrote: Everything you knew or thought to be be true were to be highly stated in fact false and even the deity you called god doesn't exist with credible evidence. and that faith itself is nothing more than wishful thinking would you continue to be willfully ignorant or would you stop believing and move on?So... would you have faith if you didn't have faith? I'd guess... no.
"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
