(April 24, 2013 at 1:53 pm)Dawud Wrote: What is it to live without religion?
I think I said this in one of the other threads, but it's not much different from when I was religious, except that I don't plan for anything religious (meetings, religious study, etc). Like Min said, it feels more free. One less thing to worry about, so to speak.
"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
