(May 1, 2013 at 7:09 pm)missluckie26 Wrote: I was trying to make it easier on them by letting them know I didn't for sure know there isn't a god Ryantology.. I consider myself an atheist because I don't believe there is. Fml oh well.
Perhaps you were also hoping that they'd make it easier on you if you made a concession. Since they've decided to go on the attack, you can simply put the burden of proof on them, but I suspect that won't go any better. My advice-- don't worry yourself about how they will feel about it; either they'll realize that you're more important to them than their religious beliefs, or they won't.
It sounds as if they want this to be your problem. Let it be their problem. Tell them you're going to shake the dust off of your sandals before you leave.
"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
