(May 19, 2014 at 1:32 am)Mozart Link Wrote: Even though I'm an atheist, I truly wish I wasn't. I'd rather be the dumbest person on Earth who believes in a God and afterlife than be a smart young man who is logical and doesn't believe.If you could limit the ignorance and lack of curiosity to only religious belief, I guess it might not be so bad. But dumb people tend to be dumb about everything, and people who lack curiosity aren't curious about anything. I'd rather be intelligent enough to know, even if the knowledge isn't what I would like for it to be.
"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
