(January 31, 2014 at 3:53 pm)ThePinsir Wrote: The point of the thread: for me atheism is still new and exciting. But does it ever die down and just become a background thing? After the "novelty" wears off...then what?You settle in and continue living your life. We're adaptable creatures, and we can become used to just about anything, given enough time.
"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
