(October 14, 2013 at 1:21 pm)Dunno Wrote: I've noticed that some people on here are saying that religion is bad. Well, no one likes being fooled, and if you're an atheist, you're kind of sure that religious people are just messing with you.
I don't think that religious people are "messing with" me. I think that for the most part they genuinely believe and are dedicated to their religion or religious beliefs. If we consider some of the things religious people have done in the name of those beliefs, that is what makes religion bad.
"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
