(August 16, 2013 at 4:05 pm)Minimalist Wrote: I would dispute the notion that creationists are intelligent. They are frightened little assholes who can't bear the thought that their bullshit is not true.
For many of us, it was more a case of ignorance and not recognizing that we were using the conclusion as the starting point and working backwards. Even so, once you apply a bit of intelligent thought to the concept, you are quickly on your way to not being a creationist. How long the process takes depends on how stubborn you are.
"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
