(April 21, 2014 at 11:42 am)Atheist And Proud Wrote:I was responding to the part of your post where you stated that we should accept that we "can't change" the views of other people. But people can and do change each other's beliefs all the time. For certain religions and religious denominations, it is part of their belief system that they must try to convert others. They cannot accept that people cannot change their views.(April 21, 2014 at 11:27 am)Tonus Wrote: But there are atheists who were once theists, and vice-versa. People can change their views.Yes but thats you're choice isn't it? You can change you're own views I'm just saying you shouldn't force you're views on to other people especially in most cases it won't work.
"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
