(June 18, 2013 at 2:33 pm)ideologue08 Wrote: I'm talking about human beings, I mean they were talking about Hitler, even if Hitler was a Christian, what does that prove? That 'Christianity' is capable of evil? What does that even mean? Surely a more accurate term is "Christians are capable of evil", that's why it's confusing. The ideology itself cannot kill anything, it's the followers that do it.
I don't think she was saying that the ideology does those things, but that it provides the justification or motivation for it. Or that some variants do.
"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
