(March 18, 2014 at 1:02 am)tor Wrote: Most people don't rally against religion for no reason. Say what is that about religion that you specifically dislike.I don't rally against it at all.
What I dislike about it is that it can make good people do awful things and believe that what they are doing is for the benefit of the people they are victimizing. They may harm others mentally or emotionally and leave lasting scars because they believe it is "the will of god" and because they believe it is "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
