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RE: Just imagine this
December 15, 2014 at 9:48 pm
(December 13, 2014 at 4:29 pm)dyresand Wrote: no no you keep hitting them until you knock sense into them.
Beating people senseless with a book? How do you think Christianity spread in the first place?
"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."
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RE: Just imagine this
December 16, 2014 at 6:40 am
(December 15, 2014 at 11:50 pm)Lek Wrote: Dyresand is the one who wants to beat people senseless with books. You can make the theme song for your crusade to be "She Blinded Me with Science."
That's pretty good. It does encapsulate the theist view well, too. "Don't blind me, or I won't be able to see the invisible god who hides in his undetectable dimension!"
"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