(May 1, 2013 at 11:00 am)Bohook24 Wrote: I wear a cross necklace that my parents bought me. It has been kinda bugging me because I don't believe anymore but I'm still advertising with the cross. Should I take it off?
One possible approach is to make atheism seem less offensive by comparison to something else.
For example, instead of taking off the necklace with the cross on it, attach the cross upside-down.
"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
