(July 28, 2015 at 8:14 am)Nope Wrote: For those who were religious, how has your view of life changed?
I don't think it changed that much for me. While I am now a much more confident and driven person, that could have happened while I was still religious. I do think that I am a bit more willing to take risks now instead of simply waiting for god to rapture me so that I can start my life. I was always a happy person, so the transition from theist to atheist was relatively painless and somewhat liberating. But the bigger changes in my life had nothing to do with my religious views as much as they did with my view of myself and how I could get more out of life today.
"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
