RE: Oprah speaks for atheists?
October 15, 2013 at 3:04 pm
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2013 at 3:05 pm by Tonus.)
That sounds like the argument from design. The universe seems so awesome and cool that it must have been made by god. I'll bet she'd be awed by the bright colors and patterns of Phyllobates bicolor if she saw one. She might be somewhat less awestruck if she touched it, though. God sure can be a sneaky bastard.
"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
