(March 24, 2013 at 7:04 pm)missluckie26 Wrote: I do get upset a little when people think theists are crazy.
I don't think all theists are crazy. I grew up a Christian and most of my family, friends, and co-workers still are. I think people who demonstrate that they are crazy are probably crazy, though. It's not the theism part that makes me think a person is crazy, it's the part where that person sounds like a lunatic.
"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