RE: Yes, I Assume Naturalism
September 20, 2013 at 10:49 am
(This post was last modified: September 20, 2013 at 10:50 am by Tonus.)
As a child I feared the bloodthirsty creature that hid under my bed, just waiting for a chance to grab a dangling leg and drag me to my doom. I couldn't prove he was there, even to myself. As far as I could prove, he wasn't there. But I sure as hell wasn't going to let my leg dangle over the edge of the bed, either.
I got over that belief when I was fairly young. A similar (if more complicated and ridiculous) system of belief took much longer to get over. Having discarded all of those immaterial universes and the creatures that inhabited them, I'm left with the material universe. The one that has always been there when I grew bold enough to dare to peek.
I got over that belief when I was fairly young. A similar (if more complicated and ridiculous) system of belief took much longer to get over. Having discarded all of those immaterial universes and the creatures that inhabited them, I'm left with the material universe. The one that has always been there when I grew bold enough to dare to peek.
"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
