RE: What gives a religion the right to claim their fantasy is correct and the rest false?
November 20, 2016 at 9:17 am
(November 15, 2016 at 1:40 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote: If you're an atheist, you also think everyone's religion is wrong and you're the one who's right.
Another way to look at this is that every person is an atheist because we all reject most of the gods and religions that have existed or continue to exist. I apply my standard of belief to all gods, and you make an exception for one. Are we really on equal footing in our beliefs?
"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
