(April 29, 2014 at 5:35 pm)FreeTony Wrote: The whole Christian America thing I find funny and scary in equal measure. The idea of George Bush standing over the nuclear armageddon button, thinking what Jesus* would do is terrifying.The day-to-day stuff can get annoying, because in a culture like this one, even in a pretty liberal place like New York City, you get people who cannot stop waving their religion in everyone's faces. No matter how fucking loony you are, people are determined to "respect your faith," even when it gets to where a person is pretending to have a direct line to "angels" who tell her about the future and provide her with "healing powers" which coincidentally don't stop her from taking more sick time than she manages to accrue.
She should be in a padded cell. Instead, she's the receptionist where I 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
