(February 15, 2014 at 1:15 pm)itsjustintyme Wrote: I know most atheists either wrestle with the concept of a God or feel inclined to dismiss it all together and would figure this goes for demonic activity also. However I've never directly asked, do most atheists believe there is anything to demonic possession, ghosts, psychic mediums, weigi boards or the like? Or are these just psychological situations that can be explained away by science as hoaxes?.Devils, demons, and ghosts are in the same category as gods for me. Until such time as any of them are demonstrated to exist I will remain skeptical. I take the same approach towards such creatures as Bigfoot or the Loch Ness Monster or in phenomena such as UFOs.
"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
