(May 8, 2013 at 4:42 pm)aerengarth Wrote: I was born a nonbeliever, and I stayed that way because my parents never tried to cram religion down my throat. It only reinforces my understanding of how humans adopt religion. Religion is not freely chosen by most. For most, they are fed religion as absolute fact when we don't know any better, and when we grow older, since religion is the foundation we built our lives on, we dare not remove it for fear of our entire lives becoming broken. It is easy to accept answers for everything. It is difficult to search for the real ones.
Couldn't have put it better myself. Welcome to the forums.
"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
