(November 7, 2013 at 8:26 pm)kılıç_mehmet Wrote: We have the same nutjobs here in Turkey, though these people are just lone agents. Here, we have a sect that actively wants their members to live out lives of chastity and work on the behalf of their sect. I personally think they are dangerous for doing this. Turkish men and women who would normally have a family devote themselves to this dangerous philosophy which has nothing to do with religion, and do not produce children that constitute the future of the nation.
On the other hand, it means that the more gullible elements of Turkish society aren't breeding. This is not as bad as it might first seem.
"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
