RE: Hello
August 8, 2013 at 9:05 pm
(This post was last modified: August 8, 2013 at 9:05 pm by Tonus.)
Welcome to the forums. We have Apo, and now we have Apri.
I'm probably treading dangerous ground after that line.
But they're Christians! Surely they wouldn't...
Hah! Just kidding. I know how "Christian" Christian fundamentalists can be.
I'm probably treading dangerous ground after that line.
(August 8, 2013 at 5:45 pm)apricot-and-a-coffee Wrote: I'm trying to decide when to tell them, which is: probably not till after college, when I'm no longer counting on them to pay part of my tuition.
But they're Christians! Surely they wouldn't...
Hah! Just kidding. I know how "Christian" Christian fundamentalists can be.
"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