(May 11, 2014 at 10:26 pm)abtaylor Wrote: What about you guys, what's your "purpose" in life?To enjoy it.
abtaylor Wrote:But anyways, I was talking to someone who found out and they said something like "but since you're an atheist, doesn't that mean you have no purpose in life?."I would be curious to know what this person believes his purpose in life to be. Because I find that whole "atheist has no purpose" argument to be very strange coming from anyone who serves a god who doesn't really need him.
"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
