(September 27, 2013 at 8:35 pm)Drich Wrote: God is the producer of said evidence. Again 1/3 of the worlds population seem to have found it, 2% simply refuse to look as instructed.
Your figures are based on:
- a quick and sloppy bit of math that you based on percentages that you pulled out of thin air in response to a comment I made, and
- the lowest of three or four estimates (on a wikipedia page, no less) that covered a wide range of estimates for people professing to be atheists and people professing no religion.
And now you're stating both as support for your point-of-view. It seems appropriate that you'd take such shaky figures as the basis of what you believe. Par for the course, and all of that.
"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
