(October 18, 2013 at 2:53 pm)Wunsbee Wrote: Some atheists are like this, some are not. Are you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aRN0IVMWEmk
Honest, if I'd seen that video shortly after coming to realize I was an atheist, I might have crawled right back inside a Bible. People can make atheism sooo complicated. The thing I remember most clearly about embracing my loss of belief was the sense of freedom I felt. The last thing I want to do is try to figure out how many labels I can cover myself with. Right now I'm pretty comfortable with none.
The best part about freeing myself from religious belief is that I don't have to belong to any particular "we" anymore, unless I want to.
"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
