RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
December 2, 2016 at 7:25 pm
(December 2, 2016 at 7:18 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: In the case of an ectopic pregnancy, the damaged Fallopian tube can be surgically removed. The baby inside will die as a result of this, but the death is the unintended side effect of the medical condition, not the intended outcome/goal, as is with abortion.
I asked because you said that "(i)n the cases where the mom's life is in immediate danger [...] there are ethical ways of dealing with the situation that don't involve an abortion." I was curious what the answer would be, though I assumed that the fetus would be aborted since the other option would kill it anyway.
"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
