(October 20, 2013 at 1:15 am)Polaris Wrote: Atheists. Would you prefer a believer be upfront that they believe or would you rather not care if they believe in religion or not?
It generally does not matter to me whether they believe or not, unless circumstances make that relevant.
"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
