(June 9, 2014 at 11:22 pm)emergencyScott Wrote: Do you ever wish you could have faith in something? Humanity, even though it is pretty screwed up sometimes, still gives me real hope. But sometimes I feel a little empty.I spent decades believing in god, and it was a comforting feeling. When I finally cast off religion and realized that 'god' was the guy who stared back at me in the mirror every morning, I felt pretty good about that as well. I think that life is what we make of it, and not having god wasn't much different than having god, seeing as he didn't do anything for me while I was a believer.
Thoughts?
Mostly what changed for me was realizing that I had a lot more control over my life than I allowed myself to have before. Haven't looked back, and honestly I cannot fathom ever becoming a religious person again.
"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
