(December 14, 2014 at 4:04 pm)Deidre32 Wrote: If you have any advice, thoughts, words of hope or encouragement, I'd be interested in hearing.Ewww... you're picking up church cooties and you want encouragement???
But seriously, being an atheist doesn't mean you're forced to avoid church or not seek out whatever truth you might feel drawn to. If accompanying your family to church on a holiday makes you happy, then do that.
"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
