(April 25, 2013 at 11:08 pm)Stimbo Wrote: I'm wondering if the police hadn't locked the fuckers up whether they'd have gone on thinking that this ritual thing actually worked.
That's the scary part. If they believed that it worked, they have incentive to try again. If they believed that it didn't work, they might decide that they didn't do it right, and try again.
At the same time, the criminally insane can use religion as a tool for their horrific actions, but if they didn't I think they'd find some other way to rationalize their desire to murder babies.
"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
