(September 26, 2013 at 3:10 am)pineapplebunnybounce Wrote: What really struck me about that story was Pizarro's speech to Atahualpa before he handed him the bible. Basically something like, repent from your ways and worship Jesus the one true god blah blah blah. Christians' conversion techniques haven't changed for so damn long!
Demand that they convert, then torture and murder the dissenters? That sounds about right.
"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
