(March 17, 2014 at 11:47 am)xr34p3rx Wrote: some theist claim that it's harder to be an atheist than a ChristianI didn't find one to be any more difficult than the other. It's not as if religion is the only responsibility that people have in their lives and that life becomes magically more easy or difficult one way or another. Maybe because the JWs believe that death is final and that there is no hell to scare people with, I never had that burden and therefore religion was not "scary." So my life after religion is very similar to my life during.
ideas?
"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
