(March 31, 2014 at 2:16 pm)Huggy74 Wrote: you don't get it, If I was an "Atheist" why waste the precious little time that I have on the earth protesting nonsense?Tilting at windmills is a human trait, not specifically an atheist trait. People find innumerable ways to waste time when there are better things to do. This has a positive aspect: if theists were all as dedicated as one would expect them to be, they'd be much more invasive and obnoxious than just the relative few nutcase fundamentalists out there.
"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
