(June 6, 2013 at 9:38 am)ideologue08 Wrote: If you don't think people should die for their ideals, then what do you think people should fight to the death die for, nothing?
Ideally, they wouldn't fight to the death for anything. If a person is being forced to choose between his life and something he believes in, I figure that the person forcing the choice is acting unreasonably.
"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
