(March 4, 2014 at 6:34 pm)Mr. Moncrieff Wrote: Losing my religion, has meant losing the respect of a many number of colleagues, it would seem.This is, to me, the most insidious facet of religion. All the talk of tolerance and "christian behavior" go out the window in an instant, replaced by a boorish attitude that they have the gall to refer to as "righteous indignation." In other words, they are treating you like shit because they feel that it is what they are supposed to do because it is the right thing to do.
There is nothing so scary as a person who can do monstrous things to you "for your own good."
"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
