(November 13, 2013 at 6:25 am)Lion IRC Wrote: The really surprising thing I see a LOT at atheist fora is the;I think it's what you'll see on most internet forums because humans are social creatures and have a desire to belong. I just shrug my shoulders at it; if someone needs to know what I think of one issue or another, they can always ask.
...we all think this... we all agree that... everyone here says... we can all bid a troll....
"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