Then there's nothing to worry about. When we get to the afterlife, we realize that god is there and we open that door and we crash the party in heaven. And all of the theists are like "what the fuck, god? We spent all of those years trying so hard to please you and it was that easy to get into heaven the whole time???"
So we toss a sideways glance at god, and he tosses a sideways glance at us, and after a short pause we both burst into hysterical laughter. And god tells the theists "stop acting like a bunch of stuck up dorks and grab a 40 already!!!" And the atheists walk around the room, pointing at each theist and shouting "YOU'RE A BITCH! AND YOU'RE A BITCH! AND YOU'RE A BITCH!"
So we toss a sideways glance at god, and he tosses a sideways glance at us, and after a short pause we both burst into hysterical laughter. And god tells the theists "stop acting like a bunch of stuck up dorks and grab a 40 already!!!" And the atheists walk around the room, pointing at each theist and shouting "YOU'RE A BITCH! AND YOU'RE A BITCH! AND YOU'RE A BITCH!"
"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
