(March 2, 2014 at 12:46 pm)StatCrux Wrote: Alex Rosenberg, (in his book "An atheists guide to reality") at last an honest atheist who admits that ultimately atheism when taken to its logical conclusion leads to lack in intentionality, lack of meaning or purpose in life and nihilism. If only a few more atheists admitted this to the general public we would be a lot better off. The true colours of atheism are coming out.It seems to annoy some of you to no end that so many atheists manage to enjoy life without being shackled by religious belief. But that's alright, you go on and figure out how my life is meaningless and why I'm supposed to be running around raping and killing, or whatever it is that gives you that warm feeling inside. I'll be over here, enjoying this delicious bowl of ice cream.
"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
