(March 25, 2013 at 10:19 pm)jstrodel Wrote: (trusting the church which has been around for 2000 years as the main anchor of western society is the same as believing in the tooth fairy)
I would point out, once again, that jstrodel is misrepresenting comments that are still available to read. He does this because he cannot produce evidence to prove that god exists, just like no one can produce evidence that proves the tooth fairy exists. This argument has vexed him to the point that he allowed the mask to slip:
jstrodel Wrote:If you say that Christianity is on the same evidential level as the tooth fairy, you are a liar. And you will go to hell. And I will be happy that you burn, because you are a liar, and you know that you are lying, and you deserve it.
Misrepresenting what others have said in support of his agenda sure sounds like lying to me. Jstrodel may want to square things with his invisible magic buddy, lest he risk hellfire.
"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