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RE: The Image Problem With Atheism in America
August 11, 2014 at 2:18 pm
(August 11, 2014 at 1:08 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Since it appears that presenting my last post in big green letters didn't got understood, I wonder why this pointless thread shouldn't be locked
I think what you're trying to say is...
"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
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RE: The Image Problem With Atheism in America
August 11, 2014 at 2:54 pm
Question is: do I feel lucky?
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RE: The Image Problem With Atheism in America
August 11, 2014 at 3:23 pm
I think if I accused you of being a liar without providing any evidence of such, and then ignoring any attempt to investigate my position; you wouldn't take that lying down either.
'The more I learn about people the more I like my dog'- Mark Twain
'You can have all the faith you want in spirits, and the afterlife, and heaven and hell, but when it comes to this world, don't be an idiot. Cause you can tell me you put your faith in God to put you through the day, but when it comes time to cross the road, I know you look both ways.' - Dr House
“Young earth creationism is essentially the position that all of modern science, 90% of living scientists and 98% of living biologists, all major university biology departments, every major science journal, the American Academy of Sciences, and every major science organization in the world, are all wrong regarding the origins and development of life….but one particular tribe of uneducated, bronze aged, goat herders got it exactly right.” - Chuck Easttom
"If my good friend Doctor Gasparri speaks badly of my mother, he can expect to get punched.....You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others. There is a limit." - Pope Francis on freedom of speech
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RE: The Image Problem With Atheism in America
August 11, 2014 at 3:51 pm
Nope, but I'm a mod. See you later archangle.
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RE: The Image Problem With Atheism in America
August 11, 2014 at 3:55 pm
Filth will not be tolerated, whateverist. Not on my watch.