(March 11, 2014 at 12:14 pm)Fromper Wrote: What do the rest of you say?
I say "bless you." It's a custom, like covering my mouth when I yawn. I'm not doing it because I'm afraid a demon will enter through my mouth, after all.
The irony is that JWs don't say "bless you" when someone sneezes because they see it as a superstitious act. So when I was a believer in god I never said it, and now that I'm an atheist I do.
"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
