(November 27, 2016 at 2:07 am)Macoleco Wrote: By attacking I mean violently and/or economically speaking. Would you do it if you had the power? Such a the Nazis did?
I wonder how many such attempts to brutally suppress religion ever worked. I think they become less effective in an age of technology like we have now. Better to let them continue to wilt under the societal and cultural pressure that comes from learning more and giving people access to knowledge and information.
"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