RE: Free(from)ThoughtBlogs
August 9, 2013 at 2:58 pm
(This post was last modified: August 9, 2013 at 3:03 pm by Tonus.)
(August 9, 2013 at 11:54 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: I'm very ignorant of all the "atheist leaders",
Becoming an atheist meant that I no longer had to concern myself with "leaders" and "movements" in that context. No wonder so many theists assume that atheism is just another religion. Perhaps there are too many atheists who try to act as if it is.
(August 9, 2013 at 12:18 pm)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: How can you throw a word like rape around like that?
If he's claiming it was rape, I'm more concerned that he describes it as "unethical behavior." In most places it's considered a serious crime. If it's true that a person has done this to at least six people, he is a serial rapist and charges could be brought against him that would carry a life sentence. These women should be talking with a DA, not sending anonymous letters to internet bloggers.
"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
