(April 14, 2013 at 12:48 pm)Norfolk And Chance Wrote: Don't JW's shun you if you leave the religion or shack up with a non JW?
Yeah. If you're disfellowshipped or if you disassociate yourself, the policy is that of no interaction whatsoever. Even immediate family are instructed to minimize or even avoid contact (this rule has fluctuated in the past; as far as I know, currently they're using the strictest interpretation).
"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