(April 21, 2014 at 11:07 am)Atheist And Proud Wrote: Can't atheist just accept we can't change religious peoples believes. They can believe what they want to believe, okay!!???But there are atheists who were once theists, and vice-versa. People can change their views.
And can't Religious people just accept that you can't change our views, especially quoting things from religious books, which I have had done to me on the internet before.
"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
