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Advice For Those Who Have 'Questions For Atheists'
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RE: Advice For Those Who Have 'Questions For Atheists'
Min linked to this blog post from two years ago showing the exact same questions, with the person asking them claiming that they were from an "apologetics class." So it's likely to be a hit-and-run post dump from a theist. I sure hope that this isn't what they're teaching people to ask, but seeing as it's just a step removed from "evolution is just a theory," I figure we'll see it again and again.
"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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RE: Advice For Those Who Have 'Questions For Atheists' - by Tonus - February 3, 2014 at 6:27 am

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