RE: Attn: Christians, We've Heard Them Already
July 3, 2013 at 2:33 pm
(This post was last modified: July 3, 2013 at 2:35 pm by Tonus.)
(July 3, 2013 at 1:17 pm)fr0d0 Wrote: I'm not saying that Christians are perfect. Quite the opposite. What you can't do is judge the ideology on actions contrary to the ideology.
I agree with that, but one thing I can remember from my time as a believer was how often we marveled at the "transformative power of religion." It seems that we give people too little credit or blame for the way their lives turn out.
"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
