(April 7, 2014 at 1:38 am)Losty Wrote: I wonder if these Christians realize the unnecessary pain they cause by saying stuff like this.It's another reminder of the harm that religion does. People can say and do the most hurtful things to one another because they are convinced that it is for "your own good" and that they are motivated by love.
Misplaced guilt is one of the commonly-used tools of religion, and causes untold suffering to lots of people. And it's all for nothing. A net loss in the greater scheme of things. That's terribly sad.
"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
