(April 12, 2014 at 7:31 am)whateverist Wrote: I find your perspective fascinating. Do you have a thread already in which you've shared your deconversion process? Also I would be interested to know which faithbrand you formerly held and, if you don't mind, where you are from. I'm thinking you might actually have left the Jehovah's Witnesses?I don't think I've made a thread on that, at least not with much in the way of details. I should, since it's a good exercise IMO. But yes, I left the JWs (not formally, as they still consider me a member, if not in good standing). I've lived my whole life in the Bronx, but am about a year away from a permanent move to Ohio.
"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