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Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist?
(January 8, 2017 at 5:41 pm)Whateverist Wrote: Got to admit I'm curious what you mean by "proof reasons".

I figured that he was comparing it to a theist being convinced by "poof! Reasons!"
"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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RE: Atheists, tell me, a Roman Catholic: why should I become an atheist? - by Tonus - January 8, 2017 at 8:27 pm

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