(April 21, 2013 at 8:44 pm)jrsm_10 Wrote: I'm just wondering if, even though they have to change their behavior, it sort of makes sense they behave this way.
Considering that their behavior could have a negative effect on the business they work for, it doesn't make sense. If they decided that working with an atheist was so intolerable, it would make sense for them to leave and find other work. But not to take action (or inaction, in this case) that could harm their employer.
"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
