(August 22, 2013 at 7:32 pm)freedomfromfallacy Wrote: I'm curious. Do the resident christians really believe all of the stuff they post?
When I was a believer, I certainly did believe a lot of that stuff and had no doubt that it was true. When you have accepted that god exists and believe this utterly and absolutely, you are determined to make everything else fit into that particular worldview. If something doesn't fit, it could bring the whole belief system crashing down, and that can be extremely traumatic.
"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
