(June 6, 2013 at 11:41 am)Minimalist Wrote: Subtlety is not normally a mormon trait. Being a moron - er, mormon - requires an ability to suspend rationality which is far beyond the realm of normal theists.
Julia Sweeney did a great bit on Mormons in her "Letting go of God" series. Yeah... if they can convert you, you probably had one foot in the padded cell already.
"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
