(January 14, 2025 at 4:50 pm)Sheldon Wrote: Apparently stone being non-combustible is beyond their imagination, yet they easily imagine a deity that destroys their home to manifest a miracle, despite the fact that it is not by definition miraculous.
They worship a deity who drowned an entire planet to accomplish basically nothing, so it's just par for the course.
"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
