(December 5, 2013 at 6:56 am)Lion IRC Wrote: Me and my parents and their parents and theirs, have something to be grateful for BUT in addition, unlike you, I have Someone to be grateful to.
This seems to imply that you aren't grateful to any person for the things they've done for you, preferring instead to grant all credit to god.
It's not that the atheist has no one to be grateful to. We have many people to be grateful to, and grateful for. And as an added bonus, they happen to exist.
"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
