(December 4, 2013 at 4:03 pm)DOS Wrote: Does it change anything? Belief usually is based on something and you believe in null. You believe in the position!!! Faceplam!!!
My point is that "the belief" (or lack of belief) and "the position" are not separate. You earlier asked max if his claim (that he is an atheist) applied to the belief or the position. I'm pointing out that they are related.
"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
