(May 14, 2014 at 4:11 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: I always here Christians claim they are humble, especially the the Christians here, but yet I have rarely if ever seen most of them carry themselves in a humble manner in debates and discussions here.Most of them avoid foul language and direct insults, sometimes in the face of some pretty harsh responses, and that could be considered a form of humility. Personally, I have no problem with them taking the gloves off and firing right back. It makes me feel as if I'm not the only obnoxious prick in the room. It's also the more human response, IMO.
I think one problem is that we loosely define humility in a person. Is a "humble person" someone who always lowers himself below others? Because that sounds more like a pushover than a humble person. I think that if you are generally humble around others but unwilling to take shit from someone who doesn't deserve your respect, that doesn't mean you are not a humble person. It just means you aren't a doormat.
"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
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