(March 23, 2014 at 8:08 pm)sven Wrote: I'm not saying that I haven't wanted to strangle some christians with their own disemboweled intestines when I've talked to them about religion.I am thankful to not have met any of those particular Christians, as the worst that I've ever wanted to do to one is... I can't think of anything worse than 'smile dismissively.' Not quite the same as strangling them with their own viscera, but also not nearly as colorful. Or... wet.
Be grateful, your friend has taught you that being intelligent doesn't mean that a person will not sublimate his reasonable nature in order to make room for religion. People put aside logic to make room for insanity from time to time. He's not a Celtics fan, by any chance?
"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
