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How to respond to "God bless you" statements
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RE: How to respond to "God bless you" statements
April 21, 2014 at 2:03 pm
(April 21, 2014 at 1:57 pm)Fromper Wrote: Any suggestions for a succinct, polite response?
Smile and nod? It doesn't strike me as much different from "farewell" or "good luck" as a sendoff.
"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."

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How to respond to "God bless you" statements - by Fromper - April 21, 2014 at 1:57 pm
RE: How to respond to "God bless you" statements - by Tonus - April 21, 2014 at 2:03 pm

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