(May 21, 2014 at 3:25 pm)alpha male Wrote: Ah, the lovely thing about being an atheist is that you can be a dick and not feel guilty about it.I think it's more accurate to say that the atheist doesn't have to feel guilty about it. Or at least he doesn't have to pretend to. No one's going to throat-jab us for an eternity if we happen to be dickish from time to time and can't bring ourselves to feel sufficiently bad about it.
"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
