(November 5, 2013 at 10:35 pm)AtheistTeen1234 Wrote: Hello my fellow Atheists, I just wanted to ask if any of you ever feel lonely as an atheist at times. I know that this happens to be occasionally. But will atheistforums.org be the cure for my loneliness?
I may be old fashioned, but I don't think that there is a substitute for face-to-face social interaction. I think it's great that we have so many alternative means for connecting with one another, but I don't think that internet forums, text messages, etc will cure your loneliness. They may offer a way to locate and meet other people who either share your views or who don't care and won't let it get in the way of enjoying your company. Look for local people or groups that you can meet and interact with, and make some friends who don't have the baggage that you are probably trying to get away from.
"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
