RE: Imagine,All religious people disappear from Earth and only atheists are left.
August 19, 2013 at 5:55 pm
(August 19, 2013 at 4:17 pm)Big Blue Sky Wrote: Do you think that we will still need weapons if there was no religion?
I think that there would still be plenty of "isms" that we could use to justify doing terrible things to each other. We invented religion, after all.
"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
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