(November 16, 2013 at 11:48 pm)snowtracks Wrote: seems to me, the atheists as group need to do some work on their survival instincts. death is an enemy to be railed against; no reason to allow it to put a kibosh on future plans.
Dealing with the problem of death by pretending that there is a magical solution to it doesn't improve our survival rate.
"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