(August 26, 2013 at 8:07 pm)ParCutz Wrote: I am very curious as to why non-atheists frequent this site and others like it. I will list a few reasons why they might, but I cannot know for sure since I can never "think" like them.
I don't know why, and when I was religious I would never have even approached a site like this. Major spiritual cooties, dontcha know.
However, I'm glad that they do. Can't have active discussion without someone willing to take the opposite side of the argument(s).
"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
