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If you wish to start your own religion
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RE: If you wish to start your own religion
(November 18, 2013 at 12:10 pm)Minimalist Wrote: All "religions" began when one guy said to another guy:

Maybe the first religion was started when one guy wondered "how can I rape people and steal from them and have them love me for it?"
"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
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If you wish to start your own religion - by Mania2 - November 18, 2013 at 10:21 am
RE: If you wish to start your own religion - by Minimalist - November 18, 2013 at 12:10 pm
RE: If you wish to start your own religion - by Tonus - November 18, 2013 at 1:36 pm
RE: If you wish to start your own religion - by Minimalist - November 18, 2013 at 12:41 pm

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