(May 12, 2014 at 5:48 pm)Mr Brightside Wrote: You can't just open one door and close all the others.. it doesn't work that way. Anyone with a fake deity like yours will want there fair share of time devoted to their chosen religious beliefs. Yes this even means Satanists.. or i dunno Pink Flying Unicorn believers.While I suppose some people will (and already have) request prayers to the devil or the flying spaghetti monster, and so on, I think that will fade away quickly (I certainly hope it does, I don't think the targets of those actions can appreciate parody). Where it may become an issue and a cause for regret is when/if someone demands a muslim prayer to open a meeting or other government business. Because it will not be easy to simply dismiss it as rabble-rousing or trouble-making without causing a bit of a scandal.
"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