(March 4, 2014 at 11:31 am)JesusLover1 Wrote: But if people believe everything told to them as a kid, why do no adults believe in Santa Claus?Because at some point in your childhood, the people who lied to you about Santa Claus came clean and admitted that it was made up. They should've done the same regarding god, and you wouldn't be crippled by the fear of hell.
"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
