(March 22, 2013 at 1:27 pm)jstrodel Wrote: Do you have critical thinking regarding religious ideas as well as science or religious only?
To both. Science is built on critical thinking, religion is based on faith and the acceptance of something beyond detection and beyond science. Science doesn't work without critical thinking. Religion can only work without it.
"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