(August 21, 2013 at 6:01 pm)genkaus Wrote: Again, no.
The places I and the son have arrived at are very, very different. The son does not deny his father's existence - he simply denies its relevance to his life. I do deny the father's existence. The son is very much aware of the fact that his father exists and is real - I am not. The son knows and understands that god exists and chooses to ignore it. I know and understand that he does not exist.
I think the most important thing is that you're both at the beach. I find it to be an apt analogy when the part about the beach is added.
"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
