(May 15, 2013 at 12:53 pm)DeistPaladin Wrote: Someone in the Obama administration or campaign actually stated, suggested or implied that Al Qaida, a decentralized terror conglomerate with independent cells working all over the world was now expected to fold up its tent because Bin Laden is dead?
Someone actually made that outrageously preposterous claim?
Did I miss it?
I kept waiting for someone to apply the standard theist playbook:
- Obama said it, but we lost the original documents and the translations are inaccurate.
- Obama said it, but spoke in a frequency that humans can't hear, so we just take it on faith that he said it.
- Obama said it, but he did so in private and anyone who heard it is long dead.
- Obama said it, and you can't prove he didn't!
"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
