RE: How to convert Christians to atheists in 30 seconds (ironically, using bible)
December 6, 2016 at 2:28 pm
(December 6, 2016 at 1:49 pm)Catholic_Lady Wrote: At the end of the day, I can only use my own logic and experiences to form my opinion.
I suppose that you cannot come to a statistically quantifiable conclusion with regard to emotions ("his love for me is at 300 of a possible 400 love points, so he loves me 75%") and such things can be stronger or weaker at times and over a long period. But we seem to be able to determine emotional states with some confidence, especially as they become more intense (ie, it's easier to tell that someone is angry as they become angrier) and at least some emotional reactions are instinctive (ie, blind people will express happiness and other emotions with the same facial expressions even though they have never seen them). So we have a basis on which we can reach a general consensus on questions like "how do I know my husband loves me."
"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
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