RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
December 4, 2016 at 12:37 pm
I think they're more likely to go with that when they're preaching to the choir or when they're new here. Otherwise, it's some form of "it was inspired by god but written by fallible men."
"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
